[Users] ANNOUNCE: strongswan-2.0.0 released

Dear FreeS/WAN users,

for three years in a row I've been releasing my X.509 patch, starting out in the year 2000 with a very rudimentary X.509 support for freeswan-1.3 up to the feature-rich X.509-1.5.3 release for the latest and last FreeS/WAN versions 2.04/2.05.

The official announcement of the discontinuation of the FreeS/WAN project made me reflect on the future direction my X.509 project should take. One alternative was to contribute directly to the Openswan project and the second one to start a distribution of my own. My personal experience with the freeswan-2.0x releases over the last year that involved continuous and very tiresome adaptations of my patches against an ever moving target convinced me to take the distribution into my own hands.

Therefore I officially announce the strongSwan OpenSource project hosted at

    http://www.strongswan.org

The objectives of strongSwan will be:

• simplicity of configuration
• strong encryption and authentication methods
• powerful IPsec policies facilitating the management of large and complex VPN networks

The current release strongswan-2.0.0 is based on freeswan-2.04 and the latest X.509 patch 1.5.3. In addition to that NAT traversal and the additional encryption algorithms AES, Serpent, Blowfish and Twofish, as well as SHA-2 authentication are supported. Dead Peer Detection (DPD) will be added in one of the next releases.

strongswan-2.0.0 runs both on Linux 2.4 (with KLIPS) and Linux 2.6 (with the native IPsec stack).

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The forthcoming release strongswan-2.1.0 will bring some powerful tools for the management of Certification Authorities (CAs), allowing e.g. to define CRL and OCSP URLs per CA in ipsec.conf.

The Openswan team is heartily invited to integrate all or parts of my future X.509 extensions into their project since all code will be put under the GPL licence. Also contributions to strongSwan are welcome as long as they fit the three objectives listed above.

Kind regards

Andreas

Andreas Steffen                   e-mail: andreas.steffen@strongsec.com
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