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Libreswan

Libreswan is a fork of the Openswan IPsec VPN implementation.

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Libreswan
Initial release3.0 / January 02, 2013
Stable release
5.1 / 8 October 2024 (2024-10-08)1
Operating systemLinux
PredecessorOpenswan, FreeS/WAN
Available inC
TypeIPsec
LicenseGNU General Public License2
Websitelibreswan.org
Repository

Libreswan is a fork of the Openswan IPsec VPN implementation.

Libreswan was created by almost all of the Openswan developers after a lawsuit about the ownership of the Openswan name was filed against Paul Wouters, the release manager of Openswan, in December 2012.345 The lawsuit was later settled out of court.34

Libreswan supports most of the common types of IPsec configurations people use including configurations like a host-to-host VPN, subnet to subnet VPN.6

See also

See also

References

References

  1. "CHANGES". Archived from the original on 2024-10-09. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  2. "LICENSE". Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  3. Wouters, Paul (2012-12-15). "Resignation from Openswan". Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  4. Wouters, Paul (2012-12-16). "My resignation of The Openswan Project". Archived from the original on 2016-10-11. Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  5. Paul Wouters (2014-07-14). "History of The Libreswan Project". Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  6. "Configuration examples - Libreswan". libreswan.org. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
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