From 7bdc931e6c30d3ea9745634c447acd795d62d031 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tobias Brunner Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:35:51 +0000 Subject: announcing the kernel plugins --- NEWS | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 342c53f2e..b0e6fa0bc 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ strongswan-4.2.9 use of the OpenSSL plugin. - Added profiling code to synchronization primitives to find bottlenecks if - running on multiple cores. Found and fixes an issue where parts of the + running on multiple cores. Found and fixed an issue where parts of the Diffie-Hellman calculation acquired an exclusive lock. This greatly improves parallelization to multiple cores. @@ -17,9 +17,12 @@ strongswan-4.2.9 slim down the daemon core. - separated IKE_SA/CHILD_SA key derivation process into a closed system, - allowing future impelementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel + allowing future implementations to use a secured environment in e.g. kernel memory or hardware. +- The kernel interface of charon has been modularized. Plugins for the native + IPsec stack of the Linux 2.6 kernel and the KLIPS IPsec stack are provided. + strongswan-4.2.8 ---------------- -- cgit v1.2.3