Hi Stevie,

strongSwan meets most if not all of your requirements.

Stevie K wrote:
> ° Key exchanges using Internet PKIs

Please explain what you mean by that. Here's a quote from strongSwan's 
feature list that might be related to this requirement.

- Authentication based on X.509 certificates or preshared keys
- Retrieval and local caching of Certificate Revocation Lists via HTTP 
or LDAP
- Full support of the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP, RCF 2560).
- CA management (OCSP and CRL URIs, default LDAP server)
- Powerful IPsec policies based on wildcards or intermediate CAs
- Group policies based on X.509 attribute certificates (RFC 3281)

> Is this possible with strongSwan and are there any HOWTOs?

Please check
http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/show/strongswan

and

http://www.strongswan.org/docs.htm

The latter might be a little bit out-dated but still contains a very 
good tutorial.

> What VPN client software is available for Windows XP that can be used with
> strongSwan?

I successfully used
NCP Secure Entry Client  (Win32/64)
which is unfortunately pretty expensive (142.80 EUR per license).
There might be other clients for WinXP as well.

You might even use the native L2TP/IPsec client of Windows XP although 
the setup is a bit nasty in my opinion. It also has some (security) 
problems.

You might also be able to use Ciscos VPN client although there are 
license/legal issues. Check
http://wiki.strongswan.org/wiki/strongswan/Autoconf
for
--enable-cisco-quirks

-Daniel
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