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Computerworld on FreeS/WAN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Sat Aug 21 22:20:59 1999
In-Reply-To: <199908191800.OAA22990@marcella.ecarm.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 16:19:29 -0400
To: cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
At 2:00 PM -0400 on 8/19/99, ecarm-news@ecarm.org wrote:
> Title: Hackers, Consultants Embrace Secure Tool
> Resource Type: News Article
> Date: 08/16/99
> Source: Computer World
> Author: Ann Harrison
> Keywords: SECURITY ,ENCRYPTION ,HACKER/SECURITY ,CONSULTANTS
>
> Abstract/Summary:
> When IT security consultants attend hacker conferences, they have high
> expectations for finding open-source security tools tested in hostile
> environments. One that meets the standard for hacker information technology
> consultants is the FreeS/WAN project's free, open-source Linux-based server
> software that uses strong encryption to create secure data tunnels
>between any
> two points on the Internet -- a needed alternative to expensive,
>proprietary virtual
> private networks (VPN).
>
> FreeS/WAN uses the IPSec protocol, an interoperable global standard for
> securing IP connections. It automatically encrypts data packets at
>6 bit/sec. and
> creates secure gateways in a VPN without modifying the operating system or
> application software. A PC running FreeS/WAN ( www.xs4all.nl/~freeswan ) can
> set up a secure tunnel in less than a second.
>
> The software generated strong interest among the 1,800 hackers who attended
> the Chaos Communication Camp, the Chaos Computer Club's first international
> hacker conference, held here last week. Among the attendees was
>Kurt Seifried,
> an independent security consultant from Edmonton, Alberta, who uses
> FreeS/WAN to create secure networks for customers.
>
> Original URL: http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/990816BBE2
>
> Added: Thu Aug 19 10:28:26 -040 1999
> Contributed by: Keeffee
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com>
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
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