Student projects

The Libreswan Project invites students to work on the libreswan code base. It offers mentoring for students. Please contact Paul Wouters if you are a student or school that is interested. For ideas of items to work on, please see GSoC2017

Below is a list of projects that students are or have been working on.

RFC 7427 Signature Authentication in the Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2)

• Student: Sahana Prasad - sponsored by Google Summer of Code 2017
• Project page: Compliance of RFC 7427 - Signature Authentication in IKEv2
• Status: Initial framework implemented to support RSA v1.5 with SHA-1 signatures
• Code: Merged and released in libreswan 3.22

RFC 8229 TCP Encapsulation of IKE and IPsec Packets

• Student: Mayank Totale - sponsored by Google Summer of Code 2017
• Project Page: GSOC 2017: Implementing RFC 8229 "TCP Encapsulation of IKE and IPsec Packets" for Libreswan
• Status: Waiting on developer review, interop testing and Linux kernel support for ESPinTCP
• Code: [ https://github.com/mtotale/libreswan/commit/db3990c0c195e16189ff43329c7735bcc7ee15d5 ]

draft-fluhrer-qr-ikev2 Postquantum Preshared Keys for IKEv2

• Student: Vukasin Karadzic - sponsored via The Libreswan Project
• Project Page Postquantum Preshared Keys
• Status: Waiting on developer review and interop tests
• Code: [ https://github.com/vukasink/libreswan/tree/ikev2 ]