
Openswan: Building and Integrating Virtual Private Networks
Packt Publishing
Published on 13. February 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-1-904811-25-1 (ISBN)
Description
Network administrators and any one who is interested in building secure VPNs using Openswan. It presumes basic knowledge of Linux, but no knowledge of VPNs is required.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-904811-25-1 (9781904811251)
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Persons
Ken Bantoft started programming in 1988, and successfully avoided doing it as a full time job until 2002. He opted instead to focus on Unix, Networking, and Linux integration. Beginning at OLS2002, he started working alongside the FreeS/WAN project, integrating various patches into his own fork of their code - Super FreeS/WAN, which is now known as Openswan. He currently lives in Oakville, ON, Canada, with his wife Van, two cats and too many computers. Ken started working for Xelerance in 2003 where he works mostly on IPsec, BGP/OSPF, Asterisk, LDAP and Radius. Paul Wouters has been involved with Linux networking and security since he co-founded the Dutch ISP 'Xtended Internet' back in 1996, where he started working with FreeS/WAN IPsec in 1999 and with DNSSEC for the .nl domain in 2001. He has been writing since 1997, when his first article about network security was published in LinuxJournal in 1997. Since then, he has written mostly for the Dutch spin-off of the German 'c't magazine', focusing on Linux, networking and the impact of the digital world on society. He has presented papers at SANS, OSA, CCC, HAL, Blackhat and Defcon, and several other smaller conferences. He started working for Xelerance in 2003, focusing on IPsec, DNSSEC, Radius and delivering trainings.
Content
Introduction Practical overview of the IPSec Protocol Building & installing OPenSwan Configuring IPSec X.509 certificates Opportunistic encryption Dealing with Firewalls Interoperating Encrypting the local network Enterprise implementation Debugging & troubleshooting