"illegal (non-DNS-name) character in name" error when starting openswan

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Issue

When starting an IPsec tunnel with Openswan, the following errors occur:

Apr  2 14:07:03 hostname ipsec__plutorun: 003 ERROR "/etc/ipsec.d/conn.secrets" line 1: index "10.10.1.1:PSK" syntax error in IPv6 numeric address
Apr  2 14:07:03 hostname ipsec__plutorun: 003 ERROR "/etc/ipsec.d/conn.secrets" line 1: index "msK!2*34f28+l" illegal (non-DNS-name) character in name
Apr  2 14:07:03 hostname ipsec__plutorun: 003 "/etc/ipsec.d/conn.secrets" line 1: unexpected end of id list

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
openswan-2.6.32*

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