Re: IKE reference implementations

[Richard Guy Briggs <[e-mail]>]

On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 05:24:30PM -0400, Niels Provos wrote:
> In message <[e-mail]>, Sandy Harris writes:
> >Rich Neill wrote:
> >> Are there any open (public domain) IKE reference
> >> implementations available?
> >FreeS/WAN is a Linux implementation under the GNU public license.
> >
> >http://www.xs4all.nl/~freeswan
> It sounds as if you want a free one, one that you can freely reuse.
> This is not the case for FreeSWAN.  But if you want a really free one,
> OpenBSD ships with an isakmpd implementation.  It supports PFKEY
> as kernel interface.  Look at http://www.openbsd.org/crypto.html.

So, what?  We are going to argue over the one true meaning of "free"?
Put away your tomatoes.  This is a religious issue.  (I am working on
PF_KEYv2 for FreeS/WAN, and use OpenBSD on my sparc for
interoperability testing.)  NIST has a free, reference implementation
of IPSEC including IPv6, which also supports PF_KEYv2, but is export
restricted.  As has been suggested before, I think, you may also want
to check KAME, from Japan.

> Greetings,
>  Niels Provos.

	slainte mhath, RGB
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