[Fwd: [Openswan dev] ANNOUNCE: Openswan 1.0.0 Released]

[Dax Kelson]

The Super FreeSWAN patch has morphed into a full blown project of it's
own complete with road maps, mailing lists, CVS, and an IRC channel.

It would be very nice to get Openswan v2.10 included with FC2.

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> From: Ken Bantoft <ken at xelerance.com>
> To: users at lists.openswan.org,
> Subject: [Openswan dev] ANNOUNCE: Openswan 1.0.0 Released
> Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 20:00:44 -0500
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> We are pleased to announce the 1st release of Openswan, a formal fork of 
> the FreeS/WAN codebase, available through http://www.openswan.org
> 
> Openswan 1.0.0 is based off the last beta of Super FreeS/WAN, and as such 
> includes features like X.509 Digital Certificate support, AES and other 
> ciphers, NAT Traversal, Dead Peer Detection (DPD), and adds XAUTH Server 
> support.
> 
> The Short Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ):
> 
> 1. Is it interoperable with FreeS/WAN & Super FreeS/WAN?
> 
> Openswan is 100% interoperable with FreeS/WAN, SuperFreeS/WAN, and dozens
> of other vendor implementations of the IPsec standards.
> 
> 2. Does it work on Linux Kernel 2.6?
> 
> The Openswan 1.x.x releases will runn on 2.0.x, 2.2.x and 2.4.x series 
> only.  Our 2.x.x tree is in active development, and support the 2.6 
> kernels.
> 
> 3. What's happening to the future of Super FreeS/WAN? 
> 
> There will be no future development on Super FreeS/WAN - the lastest tree
> was used to start Openswan 1.0.0 from.
> 
> 4. Do my configs/scripts/tools need to be updated if I change to Openswan?
> 
> Configuration + management are no different that FreeS/WAN, so config
> files do not need to be updated to upgrade to Openswan.
> 
> 5. Where do I get support?
> 
> Available via IRC, Mailing lists, or commercially through Xelerance 
> Corporation.  See http://www.openswan.org/support/ for links.
> 
> 6. What's changed (Since the last release of Super FreeS/WAN)?
> 
> Dead Peer Detection (DPD) fixes
> X.509 v0.9.37 merge
> 64bit cleanups for the port to ia64 (Thanks to HP for hardware)
> CryptoAPI for kernel 2.4.23 fixes (JuanJo)
> XAUTH Server Support (Thanks to Astaro for sponsoring this work.  See 
> README.XAUTH for details.  Disabled in default build.)
> 
> 
> - -- 
> Ken Bantoft			VP Business Development
> ken at xelerance.com		Xelerance Corporation
> sip://toronto.xelerance.com	http://www.xelerance.com
> 
> The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet. 
>         -- William Gibson
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