The KAME project, a sub-project of the WIDE Project, was a joint effort of six organizations in Japan that aimed to provide a free

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and IPsec (for both IPv4 and IPv6)

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implementation for variants of the

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computer operating-system. The project began in 1998, and on November 7, 2005, it was announced that it would be finished at the end of March 2006. The name KAME is a short version of Karigome, the location of the project's offices beside Keio University SFC. KAME Project's code is based on the "WIDE Hydrangea" IPv6/IPsec stack by WIDE Project. The following organizations participated in the project: * ALAXALA Networks Corporation * Fujitsu *

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* Internet Initiative Japan *

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* Yokogawa Electric Corporation

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and

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integrated IPsec and IPv6 code from the KAME project;

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integrated just IPv6 code rather than both (having developed their own IPsec stack).

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also integrated code from the project in its native IPsec implementation. The KAME project collaborated with the TAHI Project (which develops and provides verification-technology for IPv6), the USAGI Project and the WIDE Project.

Racoon

racoon, KAME's user-space daemon, handles Internet Key Exchange (IKE). In

systems, it forms part of the ipsec-tools package.

References

External links

* {{official website Internet protocols BSD software Free software projects Cryptographic software Key management Virtual private networks IPv6