Re: [sfs-dev] ANNOUNCE: Patriot S/WAN 1.0 Released!

Andreas Steffen <[email protected]> Tue, 01 Apr 2003 08:10:58 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.network.freeswan.user,gmane.network.freeswan.devel
Organization strongSec GmbH
Message-ID <[email protected]>
This is great! When will you provide hardware acceleration support
for three-wheel and four-wheel Enigmas? There are some countries
in "Old Europe" where Caesar's descendants still have claims on
the rot13 algorithm, so there must be some alternative ciphers to
choose from.

Andreas

Ken Bantoft wrote:
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> JuanJo Ciarlante and I are pleased to announce the release of Patriot=20
> S/WAN v1.0.  What is this exactly?  Read on...
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> Those of you who've followed Super FreeS/WAN development will have noti=
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> our current trend of supporting less and less secure ciphers, including=
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> the NULL cipher, and last month, Single DES.
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> We've decided to take this one step futher, since there is alot of=20
> uncertainty these days with crypto export regulations for US Citizens. =
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> we've forked Super FreeS/WAN and disabled the high grade ciphers.  Than=
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> to a special grant from the US Government, JuanJo was able to take the=20
> time to write the ipsec_rot13 module, so we can finally support rot13=20
> encryption for VPNs!  This means the package can be freely exported out=
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> You can download Patriot S/WAN from http://www.freeswan.ca/code/patriot=
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> or http://downloads.freeswan.ca/patriotswan today, and start building=20
> VPN's while still allowing the US Government to eavesdrop on all of you=
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> communications.  Never worry about a court-ordered wiretap again!
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> Ken Bantoft                The Unoffical FreeS/WAN Site:
> [email protected]            http://www.freeswan.ca
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