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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Monday, October 17, 2005 10:28:57 am | by CraigBox | Revert |
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-Openswan is an OpenSource implementation of [IPSec] for the [Linux] operating system. Is it a code fork of the FreeSwan project, started by a few of the developers who were growing frustrated with the politics surrounding FreeS/WAN.
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Openswan|http://www.openswan.org/]
is an OpenSource implementation of [IPSec] for the [Linux] operating system. Is it a code fork of the FreeSwan project, started by a few of the developers who were growing frustrated with the politics surrounding FreeS/WAN. (Openswan has no subsequent capital letters and no slash)
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-With the ending of the FreeSwan project (their deciding that OpportunisticEncryption wasn't happening in a hurry), OpenSwan is the defacto FreeS/WAN replacement.
+With the ending of the FreeSwan project (their deciding that OpportunisticEncryption wasn't happening in a hurry), OpenSwan is the defacto FreeS/WAN replacement. There is also another fork called StrongSwan, focusing on PKI and certificates/policies; see the StrongSwan page for a comparison chart between the two
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It is developed by a company called [Xelerance|http://www.xelerance.com/] formed for the purpose, and sponsored by [Novell] among others.
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+Openswan supports both the [26sec] and [KLIPS] [IPSec] implementations.
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