ANNOUNCE: FreeS/WAN IPSEC & IKE version 0.8 released & useful!

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To: linux-ipsec@clinet.fi
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: ANNOUNCE: FreeS/WAN IPSEC & IKE version 0.8 released & useful! Reply-To: hugh@toad.com
Errors-To: hugh@toad.com
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 14:56:22 -0700
From: Hugh Daniel <hugh@road.toad.com>

  I would like to announce for the FreeS/WAN software team that they now have a freeswan-0.8 release available for download from the FreeS/WAN home page at:

          http://www.xs4all.nl/~freeswan

  The 0.8 (and target 1.0 in June) runs only in a VPN (tunnel) mode, protecting and encrypting net traffic for a subnet behind the SG. This setup is called a SG for Security Gateway. We plan on implementing the rest of the IPSEC and IKE draft standards in our 2.0 release later this summer for the 2.1.xxx and 2.2.xx series Linux kernels.

  There is some useful documentation for the current FreeS/WAN done by Kai Martius at:

    http://www.imib.med.tu-dresden.de/imib/Internet/index.html

  The 0.8 release has been tested extensively in the hand keyed ESP-3DES-HMAC-MD5-96 tunnel mode and is quite robust. On a 150Mhz 586 Clone PC TCP throughput is over 320 Kbytes/second sustained as measured by netperf.
  The IKE daemon pluto has been tested only a very little and sometimes works and sometimes does not. It will work for the simple VPN case before 1.0.

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  Feedback, new features, documentation, scripts and bug fixes & reports are especially useful in the next few weeks before we start in on the 0.9x series of release working up to a stable 1.0 release in June. Don't wait for the last minute to submit that neat feature or bug fix, as we might not have time to include it!

  If you have questions about the project please see our home page where you will find a mail list, list archives, FTP directory's etc.   Thanks to everyone who made this release possible, but mostly the people who coded it up!

  Please post all bugs, fixes, code etc. to the public email list at <linux-ipsec@clinet.fi>.

		||ugh Daniel
		hugh@toad.com
			Systems Testing & Project mis-Management
			The Linux FreeS/WAN Project
			
http://www.xs4all.nl/~freeswan

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