Racoon (KAME)
Encyclopedia
Racoon is a tool for handling Internet Key Exchange
(IKE) in IPsec
for Linux
, FreeBSD
and NetBSD
.
It's part of the KAME project
, and almost all of the implemented KAME project code has been merged to FreeBSD
and NetBSD
. IPsec-Tools is a port of the KAME code to Linux
.
Internet key exchange
Internet Key Exchange is the protocol used to set up a security association in the IPsec protocol suite. IKE builds upon the Oakley protocol and ISAKMP...
(IKE) in IPsec
IPsec
Internet Protocol Security is a protocol suite for securing Internet Protocol communications by authenticating and encrypting each IP packet of a communication session...
for Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
, FreeBSD
FreeBSD
FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via BSD UNIX. Although for legal reasons FreeBSD cannot be called “UNIX”, as the direct descendant of BSD UNIX , FreeBSD’s internals and system APIs are UNIX-compliant...
and NetBSD
NetBSD
NetBSD is a freely available open source version of the Berkeley Software Distribution Unix operating system. It was the second open source BSD descendant to be formally released, after 386BSD, and continues to be actively developed. The NetBSD project is primarily focused on high quality design,...
.
It's part of the KAME project
KAME project
The KAME project was a joint effort of six organizations in Japan which aimed to provide a free IPv6 and IPsec protocol stack implementation for variants of the BSD Unix computer operating-system...
, and almost all of the implemented KAME project code has been merged to FreeBSD
FreeBSD
FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via BSD UNIX. Although for legal reasons FreeBSD cannot be called “UNIX”, as the direct descendant of BSD UNIX , FreeBSD’s internals and system APIs are UNIX-compliant...
and NetBSD
NetBSD
NetBSD is a freely available open source version of the Berkeley Software Distribution Unix operating system. It was the second open source BSD descendant to be formally released, after 386BSD, and continues to be actively developed. The NetBSD project is primarily focused on high quality design,...
. IPsec-Tools is a port of the KAME code to Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
.
External links
- NetBSD manual page for Racoon
- KAME Project
- IPsec-Tools, a port of KAME's IPsec utilities to the Linux-2.6 IPsec implementation