Source: freeswan Section: net Priority: optional Maintainer: Rene Mayrhofer Uploaders: Angus Lees Standards-Version: 3.2.1 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 2.2.0), libgmp3-dev Package: freeswan Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, bsdmainutils, makedev | devfsd, debconf, debianutils (>=1.7) Suggests: kernel-patch-freeswan Description: IPSEC utilities for FreeS/Wan IPSEC is Internet Protocol SECurity. It uses strong cryptography to provide both authentication and encryption services. Authentication ensures that packets are from the right sender and have not been altered in transit. Encryption prevents unauthorised reading of packet contents. . This version of FreeS/WAN supports Opportunistic Encryption (OE) out of the box. OE enables you to set up IPsec tunnels to a site without co-ordinating with the site administrator, and without hand configuring each tunnel. If enough sites support OE, a "FAX effect" occurs, and many of us can communicate without eavesdroppers. . In addition to OE, you may manually configure secure tunnels through untrusted networks. Everything passing through the untrusted net is encrypted by the IPSEC gateway machine and decrypted by the gateway at the other end. The result is Virtual Private Network or VPN. This is a network which is effectively private even though it includes machines at several different sites connected by the insecure Internet. . Please note that you will need kernel support for using this package. The standard Debian kernel does not include support for FreeS/Wan. You can build your own kernel by installing the kernel-source package and kernel-patch-freeswan, which can be automatically applied when using make-kpkg. Package: kernel-patch-freeswan Architecture: all Depends: fileutils (>= 4.1-7) Recommends: kernel-package (>= 7.04) Suggests: freeswan Description: IPSEC kernel support for FreeS/Wan This package contains the patches for the Linux kernel to get the necessary kernel support to use FreeSWan.