On Sat, 15 Dec 2001 Philip S Tellis wrote : > > Mr. Ambrish Kumar took the next lecture on IPSec, > touching on > implementations in windows and linux. There were some > doubts as to > whether the linux kernel has built in IPSec > compatibility or if it > requires a recompile. Maybe someone on the list can > shed some light on > this.
No.Current Linux kernel does not have built in IPSec compatibility,because of the US regulation(NSA can decrypt upto only 64-bit encryption).IPSec allows much better and easy encryption than anybody can decrypt. Some Distrubutions made outside the US like Polish distribution does provide inbuilt IPSec. I have recompiled the Linux(2.4.12) with Freeswan-IPSec(1.91) and currently using it with 2048-bit RSA encryption for my VPN network.It gives me descent(and the most secure) performance over the cable connection. See follwing site for more info. http://www.freeswan.org/ -Mahesh Gharat _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
