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Openswan

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Operating system
  
Linux, FreeBSD

Website
  
openswan.org

Type
  
IPsec

Stable release
  
2.6.49 / August 3, 2016; 7 months ago (2016-08-03)

License
  
GNU General Public License

In the field of computer security, Openswan provides a complete IPsec implementation for Linux 2.0, 2.2, 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.

Openswan, begun as a fork of the now-defunct FreeS/WAN project, continues to use the GNU General Public License. Unlike the FreeS/WAN project, it does not exclusively target the GNU/Linux operating system.

Libreswan forked from Openswan in 2012.

References

Openswan Wikipedia