Re: Looking for a portable IKE library

From: Alex Pankratov (alex@cipherica.com)
Date: 02/27/03


From: Alex Pankratov <alex@cipherica.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 17:18:07 GMT

Jeremy,

you may want to look at www.cipherica.com/charon. It's an
lightweight IKE exchange management library; platform- and
network-independent, open and free for non-commercial use.
It's initiator-side oriented though, so it'll probably solve
only a half of your problem :)

cheers,
/alex

Jeremy W. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a small team, which I am a member of, is in the process of designing
> and building a tunneling application, which is to use IKE/IPsec in
> userspace to secure p2p connections. (And, yes, we're aware of TLS
> and it does not work for us as the whole thing runs over UDP). We
> plan to keep the core code as portable as possible, which mandates
> portability of the IKE and IPsec. I wonder if there are any portable
> (as in "linux and windows") implementations of these two. I am not
> that worried about ESP, it's the pain of coding (or porting) IKE
> onto Windows that spookes me :)
>
> Any pointers will be greatly appreciated.
>
> And, oh, we are looking at opensourcing the application, so GPL or
> free code is certainly favored.
>
> Regards,
> J.



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