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authorReto Buerki <reet@codelabs.ch>2013-03-18 16:13:55 +0100
committerTobias Brunner <tobias@strongswan.org>2013-03-19 15:24:36 +0100
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any authentication. Therefore, to use this backend it has to be selected
explicitly with rightauth2=xauth-noauth.
+- The new charon-tkm IKEv2 daemon delegates security critical operations to a
+ separate process. This has the benefit that the network facing daemon has no
+ knowledge of keying material used to protect child SAs. Thus subverting
+ charon-tkm does not result in the compromise of cryptographic keys.
+ The extracted functionality has been implemented from scratch in a minimal TCB
+ (trusted computing base) in the Ada programming language. Further information
+ can be found at http://www.codelabs.ch/tkm/.
+
strongswan-5.0.2
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