FreeS/WAN

FreeS/WAN, for Free Secure Wide-Area Networking, was a free software project, which implemented a reference version of the IPsec network security layer for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. The project goal of ubiquitous opportunistic encryption of Internet traffic was not realized, although it did contribute to general Internet encryption. The project was founded by John Gilmore, and administered for most of its duration by Hugh Daniel. Technical lead for the project was Henry Spencer.

The final FreeS/WAN version 2.06 was released on 22 April 2004. The earlier version 2.04 was forked to form two projects, Openswan and strongSwan.

John Gilmore: founder and policy-maker.

Install

RPM install

wget http://download.huihoo.com/freeswan/freeswan-module-2.06_2.4.20_20.9-0.i386.rpm
wget http://download.huihoo.com/freeswan/freeswan-userland-2.06_2.4.20_20.9-0.i386.rpm
wget http://download.huihoo.com/freeswan/freeswan-rpmsign.asc 

import the RPM signing key into the RPM database:

rpm --import freeswan-rpmsign.asc

Check the digital signatures on both RPMs using:

rpm --checksig freeswan*.rpm 

Install

rpm -ivh freeswan*.rpm
service ipsec start

Test

ipsec verify

Links

• http://www.freeswan.org
• http://docs.huihoo.com/freeswan/
• http://download.huihoo.com/freeswan/