Documentation about IPsec¶

Standards¶

• A hopefully up-to-date list of IPsec Standards.

Wikipedia¶

• on IKE (IKEv1 and IKEv2)
• on IPsec

Links¶

• Steve Friedl's Illustrated Guide to IPsec
• HSR course "Internet Security": Virtual Private Networks
• HSR course "Internet Security": Internet Key Exchange
• Leichter Tunneln - Einfacher Tunnelbau dank IKEv2 - Heise Security (German)

Books¶

A solid unterstanding of the IKE protocol is particularly useful when debugging IPSec configurations. The following books might help you getting a good grasp of the subject.

• Kaufman, Charlie, Radia Perlman and Mike Speciner. Network Security - PRIVATE Communication in a PUBLIC World (2nd Edition), Prentice Hall International, 2002, ISBN 0-13-046019-2 (hardcover).
• Doraswamy, Naganand and Dan Harkins. IPSec: The New Security Standard for the Internet, Intranets, and Virtual Private Networks (2nd Edition), Prentice Hall PTR, 2003, ISBN 0-13-011898-2 (hardcover) / 0-13-046189-X (paperback).