Home Page: http://www.freeswan.org/
FreeS/WAN is a free implementation of IPsec & IKE for Linux. Although IPsec will be added to the kernel as of 2.5, FreeS/WAN still maintains some benefits. The FreeS/WAN project came to an end on 2003/04/22. A few months before, most people active in the project forked the code in Openswan (http://www.openswan.org/)
Opportunistic Encryption (http://www.freeswan.org/freeswan-trees/CURRENT-TREE/doc/quickstart.html) – enables you to set up IPsec tunnels without co-ordinating with another site administrator, and without hand configuring each tunnel. If enough sites support OE, a “FAX effect” occurs, and many of us can communicate without eavesdroppers.
- A work-in-progress document (http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/SSW/freeswan/oeid/draft-richardson-ipsec-opportunistic.html) regarding IKE/IPsec with Opportunistic Encryption.
Related
- VPN
- WAVEsec – an alternative to the weak WEP wireless encryption.
- CIPE
- Windows 2000 / Windows XP – Freeswan VPN (http://vpn.ebootis.de/)
- Openswan, the successor of FreeS/WAN (http://www.openswan.org/).
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