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Openswan - Implementation of IPsec for GNU/Linux

Openswan is an implementation of IPsec for the Linux operating system. Is it a code fork of the FreeS/WAN project which has been terminated. It provides IPSEC (IP Security, which is both encryption and authentication) kernel extensions and an IKE (Internet Key Exchange, keying and encrypted routing daemon), as well as various rc scripts and documentation.

Openswan is known to interoperate with other IPSEC and IKE systems already deployed by other vendors. It features Opportunistic Encryption, subnet extrusion, X.509 certificates, NAT Traversal support, XAUTH, and DNSSEC support.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.openswan.org/
Source tarballhttp://www.openswan.org/code/openswan-2.1.4.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://www.openswan.org/code/
Version 2.1.4 (stable) released on 2004-06-28
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Support contacts

Help List<users@lists.openswan.org> http://lists.openswan.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Developer List<dev@lists.openswan.org> http://lists.openswan.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
SupportPaid technical support available from Xelerance, Inc. at http://www.xelerance.com

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
  • The Openswan project

Related information

Source repository:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.openswan.org:/public/cvs login http://anoncvs.openswan.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/
Interfacescommand line
Source languagesC
Use requirementsLibgmp, Linux kernel 2.4.x or later
Related programsFree S/WAN

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2004-03-22
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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