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Martin Willi, 08.02.2011 15:02
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| 1 | 3 | Martin Willi | h1. libstrongswan |
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| 2 | 1 | Martin Willi | |
| 3 | 4 | Martin Willi | libstrongswan is the foundation library of the IKEv2 keying daemon. It is the |
| 4 | 4 | Martin Willi | base of all newer strongSwan components. |
| 5 | 1 | Martin Willi | |
| 6 | 1 | Martin Willi | h2. Plugins |
| 7 | 1 | Martin Willi | |
| 8 | 4 | Martin Willi | libstrongswan itself also supports plugins to provide modular cryptographic |
| 9 | 4 | Martin Willi | algorithms, database support or transport protocol implementations. Each plugin |
| 10 | 4 | Martin Willi | implements the _plugin_t_ interface and registers itself at one of the factories: |
| 11 | 4 | Martin Willi | |
| 12 | 4 | Martin Willi | |credentials |Credential implementations, e.g. certificates or keys.| |
| 13 | 4 | Martin Willi | |crypto |Crypto implementations, e.g. encryption algorithms or hashers.| |
| 14 | 4 | Martin Willi | |database |Database wrappers to access different databases transparently.| |
| 15 | 4 | Martin Willi | |fetcher |Transport helpers to fetch files, e.g. via HTTP/FTP.| |
| 16 | 4 | Martin Willi | |
| 17 | 3 | Martin Willi | <pre> |
| 18 | 1 | Martin Willi | +-------------------------------------+ |
| 19 | 1 | Martin Willi | | libstrongswan +---+ +-----+------+ |
| 20 | 1 | Martin Willi | | | | | aes | |
| 21 | 1 | Martin Willi | | | | +-----+------+ |
| 22 | 1 | Martin Willi | | +-------------+ | | +-----+------+ |
| 23 | 1 | Martin Willi | | | credentials | ----> | p | | curl | |
| 24 | 1 | Martin Willi | | +-------------+ | l | +-----+------+ |
| 25 | 1 | Martin Willi | | +-------------+ <---- | u | +-----+------+ |
| 26 | 1 | Martin Willi | | | crypto | | g | | des | |
| 27 | 1 | Martin Willi | | +-------------+ ----> | i | +-----+------+ |
| 28 | 1 | Martin Willi | | +-------------+ | n | +-----+------+ |
| 29 | 1 | Martin Willi | | | database | <---- | | | fips_prf | |
| 30 | 1 | Martin Willi | | +-------------+ | l | +-----+------+ |
| 31 | 1 | Martin Willi | | +-------------+ ----> | o | +-----+------+ |
| 32 | 1 | Martin Willi | | | fetcher | | a | | gmp | |
| 33 | 1 | Martin Willi | | +-------------+ <---- | d | +-----+------+ |
| 34 | 1 | Martin Willi | | | e | +-----+------+ |
| 35 | 1 | Martin Willi | | | r | | hmac | |
| 36 | 1 | Martin Willi | | | | +-----+------+ |
| 37 | 1 | Martin Willi | | | | +-----+------+ |
| 38 | 1 | Martin Willi | | | | | ... | |
| 39 | 1 | Martin Willi | | +---+ +-----+------+ |
| 40 | 1 | Martin Willi | +-------------------------------------+ |
| 41 | 1 | Martin Willi | </pre> |
| 42 | 4 | Martin Willi | |
| 43 | 5 | Martin Willi | There is a growing [[PluginList|list of plugins]] available (see source:src/libstrongswan/plugins). |