Third party VPN certification

1. A method for creating a virtual private network (VPN) connection, comprising:

querying, by a first device an online database to request a secure domain name address of a second device, wherein the querying supplies a remote name of a pre-authorized VPN name pair to the online database;

receiving the secure domain name address at the first device in response to the querying;

providing, by the first device, a verified certificate and receiving, at the first device, a verified certificate from the second device in order to establish a VPN connection using the verified certificates.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

storing, at the first device, information identifying a plurality of pre-authorized VPN name pairs, the plurality of pre-authorized VPN name pairs each including a local device name and a remote device name for a VPN connection.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the information stored on the first device further includes information identifying a VPN connection type for each pre-authorized VPN name pair.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the information stored on the first device further includes wildcard information in at least one of the local or remote device names.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

storing, on the first device, a plurality of verified certificates, the plurality of verified certificates containing different VPN parameters.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising:

associating, by the first device, the stored plurality of verified certificates with a plurality of different local names.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein querying includes supplying a public key of the first device to the online database for use in verifying the identity of the first device.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first device uses the received secure domain name address in at least one of the providing or the receiving.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein:

the verified certificates provided by the first device and received from the second device each contains at least one verified VPN parameter corresponding to the first and second devices, respectively, and

the at least one verified VPN parameters from the certificates are used to establish the VPN connection.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions for performing the following:

causing a first device to query an online database to request a secure domain name address of a second device, wherein the query supplies a remote name of a pre-authorized VPN name pair to the online database;

causing the first device to receive the secure domain name address in response to the querying;

causing the first device to provide a first verified certificate for the VPN connection to the second device using said secure domain name address and to receive a second verified certificate for the VPN connection from the second device, so that a VPN connection using the first and second certificates can be established.

11. The non-transitory medium of claim 10 , further comprising computer-executable instructions for:

causing the first device to store information identifying a plurality of pre-authorized VPN name pairs, the plurality of pre-authorized name pairs each including a local device name and a remote device name for a VPN connection.

12. The non-transitory medium of claim 11 , wherein the information identifying the plurality of pre-authorized VPN name pairs further includes information identifying a VPN connection type for each pre-authorized VPN name pair.

13. The non-transitory medium of claim 11 , wherein the information identifying the plurality of pre-authorized VPN name pairs further includes wildcard information in at least one of the local or remote device names.

14. The non-transitory medium of claim 10 , further comprising computer-executable instructions for: causing the first device to store a plurality of verified certificates for the first device, the plurality of verified certificates containing different VPN parameters.

15. The non-transitory medium of claim 14 , further comprising computer-executable instructions for:

associating, by the first device, the stored plurality of verified certificates with a plurality of different local names.

16. The non-transitory medium of claim 10 , wherein the query further supplies a public key of the first device to the online database.

17. The non-transitory medium of claim 10 , wherein:

the first and second certificates each contain at least one verified VPN parameter for the first and second devices, respectively, and

the at least one verified VPN parameter from the first and second certificates is used to establish the VPN connection.

18. A virtual private network (VPN) device, comprising:

a memory storing a plurality of verified certificates for VPN connections with the device, the certificates being associated with different local names, and the device being associated with the different local names; and

a processor configured to:

receive a request for a VPN connection from a second device, and

identify a name in the request and compare the name with the plurality of different local names to identify at least one stored verified certificate for a desired VPN connection.

19. The device of claim 18 , wherein said memory further stores information identifying policy restrictions associated with one or more of the local names.

20. The device of claim 18 , wherein said device is configured to provide VPN connections for a plurality of client devices.