14 May 1998

    To: linux-ipsec@clinet.fi
    Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
    Subject: ANNOUNCE:  FreeS/WAN IPSEC & IKE version 0.8 released & useful!
    Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 14:56:22 -0700
    From: Hugh Daniel <hugh@road.toad.com>

      I would like to announce for the FreeS/WAN software team that they
    now have a freeswan-0.8 release available for download from the
    FreeS/WAN home page at:

    	  http://www.xs4all.nl/~freeswan

      The 0.8 (and target 1.0 in June) runs only in a VPN (tunnel) mode,
    protecting and encrypting net traffic for a subnet behind the SG.
    This setup is called a SG for Security Gateway.  We plan on
    implementing the rest of the IPSEC and IKE draft standards in our 2.0
    release later this summer for the 2.1.xxx and 2.2.xx series Linux
    kernels.

      There is some useful documentation for the current FreeS/WAN done by
    Kai Martius at:

        http://www.imib.med.tu-dresden.de/imib/Internet/index.html

      The 0.8 release has been tested extensively in the hand keyed
    ESP-3DES-HMAC-MD5-96 tunnel mode and is quite robust.  On a 150Mhz 586
    Clone PC TCP throughput is over 320 Kbytes/second sustained as
    measured by netperf.

      The IKE daemon pluto has been tested only a very little and
    sometimes works and sometimes does not.  It will work for the simple
    VPN case before 1.0.

      Feedback, new features, documentation, scripts and bug fixes &
    reports are especially useful in the next few weeks before we start in
    on the 0.9x series of release working up to a stable 1.0 release in
    June.  Don't wait for the last minute to submit that neat feature or
    bug fix, as we might not have time to include it!

      If you have questions about the project please see our home page
    where you will find a mail list, list archives, FTP directory's etc.

      Thanks to everyone who made this release possible, but mostly the
    people who coded it up!

      Please post all bugs, fixes, code etc. to the public email list at
    <linux-ipsec@clinet.fi>.

    		||ugh Daniel
    		hugh@toad.com
    			Systems Testing & Project mis-Management
    			The Linux FreeS/WAN Project
    			http://www.xs4all.nl/~freeswan