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Openswan is an Open Source implementation of IPsec for the Linux operating system. It is a fork (and continuation) of FreeS/WAN.

The following people have contributed major resources and/or significant patches to Openswan 2.x. There are many more unlisted contributors. If you feel you or your company are missing, please contact paul@xelerance.com

Michael Richardson <mcr at xelerance.com>KLIPS, OCF, IKEv2, testing
Paul Wouters <paul at xelerance.com>IKEv2, packaging, porting, support
Antony Antony <antony at xelerance.com>IKEv2, testing
Ken Bantoft <ken at xelerance.com>DPD, cross compiling, integration
Bart Trojanowski <bart at xelerance.com>OCF, KLIPS
Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>NETKEY / XFRM, IKEv2, NAT-T
David McCullough <David_Mccullough at securecomputing.com>KLIPS, OCF
D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh at mimosa.com>Bug fixer extraordinaire
Andreas Steffen <andreas.steffen at strongsec.com>X.509 Certificates
Dr{Who} on FreenodePorting NAT-T + XAUTH to Openswan 2.x
Jacco de Leeuw <jacco2 at dds.nl>Fixes for MS Interop
Mathieu Lafon <mlafon at arkoon.net>NAT-T Support
Nate CarlsonForce NAT-T framework, KLIPS for 2.6, etc...
Stephen Bevan <stephen at dino.dnsalias.com>RFC2409 port selectors
Tuomo Soini <tis at foobar.fi>NETKEY, KLIPS, _updown scripts and more
Matthew Galgoci <mgalgoci at redhat.com>
Miloslav Trmac <mitr at redhat.com>
Avesh Agarwal <avagarwa at redhat.com>USE_LIBNSS, SElinux
Hiren Joshi Cyberoam www.cyberoam.comVarious fixes
Shingo Yamawaki <Shingo.Yamawaki at jp.sony.com>Various KLIPS patches
willy at w.ods.org

Openswan is a fork of the FreeS/WAN2.04 codebase. Please see the CREDITS.freeswan from FreeS/WAN for details on the original work.

  • Xelerance has sponsored the continued development of Openswan since version 1.0
  • RedHat sponsored the development of IKEv2 and USE_LIBNSS (for FIPS compliance), and various fixes related to NETKEY.
  • Secure Computing (Snapgear) contributed OCF integration, DYNDNS support and many other KLIPS and userland related fixes.
  • IXIA Communications sponsored the cryptographic refit in pluto, which permitted Aggressive mode to be incorporated safely.
  • Sony Japan contributed many fixes to KLIPS, and sponsored IPsec/L2TP development.
  • Siemens Germany sponsored IPsec/L2TP development
  • Emagister sponsored IPsec/L2TP development
  • Astaro contributed patches and hardware
  • HP donated hardware
  • Cyberoam contributed various patches
    Sponsored by:
    Xelerance
    © 2003-2008 Xelerance Corporation