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FreeS/WAN Project Closure After Five Years: A Shift In VPN Needs

After more than five years of active development, the FreeS/WAN project will be coming to an end. Nine months after the release of FreeS/WAN 2.00, Opportunistic Encryption (OE) has not caught on as we'd hoped. The Linux user community demands feature-rich VPNs for corporate clients, and while folks genuinely enjoy FreeS/WAN and its derivatives, the ways they use FreeS/WAN don't seem to be getting us any closer to the project's goal: widespread deployment of OE. For its part, OE requires more testing and community feedback before it is ready to be used without second thought. The project's funders have therefore chosen to withdraw their funding. . . .. After more than five years of active development, the FreeS/WAN project will be coming to an end. Nine months after the release of FreeS/WAN 2.00, Opportunistic Encryption (OE) has not caught on as we'd hoped. The Linux user community demands feature-rich VPNs for corporate clients, and while folks genuinely enjoy FreeS/WAN and its derivatives, the ways they use FreeS/WAN don't seem to be getting us any closer to the project's goal: widespread deployment of OE. For its part, OE requires more testing and community feedback before it is ready to be used without second thought. The project's funders have therefore chosen to withdraw their funding. The link for this article located at freeswan.org is no longer available. . Following a lengthy period of development, the FreeS/WAN initiative comes to an end after five years, attributed to dwindling enthusiasm for Opportunistic Encryption.. FreeS/WAN, VPN, Linux Security, Project Halt, Encryption. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

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