Openswan is an open source, user space IPsec implementation available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6/7. It employs the key establishment protocol IKE (Internet Key Exchange) v1 and v2, implemented as a user-level daemon. Openswan interfaces with the Linux kernel using netlink to transfer the encryption keys. Packet encryption and decryption that happen in the Linux kernel.
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