In the field of
computer security
Computer security, cybersecurity (cyber security), or information technology security (IT security) is the protection of computer systems and networks from attack by malicious actors that may result in unauthorized information disclosure, the ...
, Openswan provides a complete
IPsec
In computing, Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) is a secure network protocol suite that authenticates and encrypts packets of data to provide secure encrypted communication between two computers over an Internet Protocol network. It is used in ...
implementation for
Linux
Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which ...
and
FreeBSD
FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), which was based on Research Unix. The first version of FreeBSD was released in 1993. In 2005, FreeBSD was the most popular ...
.
Openswan, begun as a
fork
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of the now-defunct
FreeS/WAN
FreeS/WAN, for Free Secure Wide-Area Networking, was a free software project, which implemented a reference version of the IPsec network security layer for Linux. The project goal of ubiquitous opportunistic encryption of Internet traffic was n ...
project, continues to use the
GNU General Public License
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. Unlike the FreeS/WAN project, it does not exclusively target the Linux operating system.
Libreswan
Libreswan is a Fork (software development), fork of the Openswan IPsec Virtual private network, VPN implementation.
Libreswan is created by almost all of the Openswan developers after a lawsuit about the ownership of the Openswan name was fi ...
forked from Openswan in 2012.
See also
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Libreswan
Libreswan is a Fork (software development), fork of the Openswan IPsec Virtual private network, VPN implementation.
Libreswan is created by almost all of the Openswan developers after a lawsuit about the ownership of the Openswan name was fi ...
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strongSwan
External links
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References
Virtual private networks
Software forks
Free security software
Cryptographic protocols
IPsec
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