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authorMartin Willi <martin@revosec.ch>2014-06-04 16:41:50 +0200
committerMartin Willi <martin@revosec.ch>2014-06-04 16:41:50 +0200
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NEWS: Introduce Windows support
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strongswan-5.2.0
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+- strongSwan has been ported to the Windows platform. Using a MinGW toolchain,
+ many parts of the strongSwan codebase run natively on Windows 7 / 2008 R2
+ and newer releases. charon-svc implements a Windows IKE service based on
+ libcharon, the kernel-iph and kernel-wfp plugins act as networking and IPsec
+ backend on the Windows platform. socket-win provides a native IKE socket
+ implementation, while winhttp fetches CRL and OCSP information using the
+ WinHTTP API.
+
- The new vici plugin provides a Versatile IKE Configuration Interface for
charon. Using the stable IPC interface, external applications can configure,
control and monitor the IKE daemon. Instead of scripting the ipsec tool