At 2:00 PM -0400 on 8/19/99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Title: Hackers, Consultants Embrace Secure Tool > Resource Type: News Article > Date: 08/16/99 > Source: Computer World > Author: Ann Harrison > Keywords: SECURITY ,ENCRYPTION ,HACKER/SECURITY ,CONSULTANTS > > Abstract/Summary: > When IT security consultants attend hacker conferences, they have high > expectations for finding open-source security tools tested in hostile > environments. One that meets the standard for hacker information technology > consultants is the FreeS/WAN project's free, open-source Linux-based server > software that uses strong encryption to create secure data tunnels >between any > two points on the Internet -- a needed alternative to expensive, >proprietary virtual > private networks (VPN). > > FreeS/WAN uses the IPSec protocol, an interoperable global standard for > securing IP connections. It automatically encrypts data packets at >6 bit/sec. and > creates secure gateways in a VPN without modifying the operating system or > application software. A PC running FreeS/WAN ( www.xs4all.nl/~freeswan ) can > set up a secure tunnel in less than a second. > > The software generated strong interest among the 1,800 hackers who attended > the Chaos Communication Camp, the Chaos Computer Club's first international > hacker conference, held here last week. Among the attendees was >Kurt Seifried, > an independent security consultant from Edmonton, Alberta, who uses > FreeS/WAN to create secure networks for customers. > > Original URL: http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/990816BBE2 > > Added: Thu Aug 19 10:28:26 -040 1999 > Contributed by: Keeffee ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
