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 GSoC2018

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 Linux kernel support for ESPinTCP. IKEinTCP code has been implemented in libreswan
• Code: [ https://github.com/mtotale/libreswan/commit/45ab9e00d76dad5950433c06ea9f5bb817e646fc ]

draft-ietf-ipsecme-qr-ikev2 Postquantum Preshared Keys for IKEv2

• Student: Vukasin Karadzic - sponsored by The Libreswan Project
• Project Page Postquantum Preshared Keys
• Status: Passed vendor interop testing - waiting on IETF / IANA Code Point Allocation
• Code: [ https://github.com/vukasink/libreswan/tree/ikev2 ]