[Announce] Book announcement: Openswan - Building and Integrating Virtual Private Networks

[Paul Wouters]

Paul Wouters and Ken Bantoft are proud to announce the availability of
the first book dedicated to Openswan.

     Building and Integrating Virtual Private Networks with Openswan
                  by Paul Wouters and Ken Bantoft
                    published by Packt Publishing

Book url: http://www.packtpub.com/book/openswan/mid/061205jqdnh2

Order at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1904811256/104-3099591-2946327?n=283155
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1904811256/026-2471323-7077256
http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/1904811256/302-2316913-6118468


    Building and Integrating Virtual Private Networks with Openswan

    This book is a comprehensive guide to using Openswan for building
    both basic and industry size, military strength VPNs for medium
    to very large organizations. Written by the core developers, this
    practical book is all you need to use Openswan to build any VPN
    infrastructure you may need. The authors have covered the latest
    developments and upcoming issues. This book will not only help you
    build the VPN you need, but also save you a lot of time.



If you buy a copy of this book, not only will you be rewarding the
authors and make your life easier, you will also be directly sponsoring
the Openswan Project, because our Publisher, Packt Publishing, has an
"Packt Open Source Project Royalty Scheme", meaning that they donate
a percentage of the sales straight back to the Openswan Project. So if
you felt that the support you received on the Openswan mailinglists or
on the #openswan irc channel has saved you valuable time and prevented
you imminent disasters or unemployment, you can now get your karma back
by buying the book that you should have bought in the first place anyway.

Thanks to everyone in the community for sharing their problems and
solutions, and especially thanks to Tuomo "Bleve" Soini and Nate Carlson
for proof-reading the book.


In Detail


    With the widespread use of wireless and the integration of VPN
    capabilities in most modern laptops, PDA's and mobile phones, there
    is a growing desire for encrypting more and more communications to
    prevent eavesdropping. Can you trust the coffee shop's wireless
    network? Is your neighbor watching your wireless? Or are your
    competitors perhaps engaged in industrial espionage? Do you need
    to send information back to your office while on the road or on
    board a ship? Or do you just want to securely access your MP3's at
    home? IPsec is the industry standard for encrypted communication,
    and Openswan is the de-facto implementation of IPsec for Linux.

    Whether you are just connecting your home DSL connection with your
    laptop when you're on the road to access your files at home, or you
    are building an industry size, military strength VPN infrastructure
    for a medium to very large organization, this book will assist you
    in setting up Openswan to suit those needs.

    The topics discussed range from designing, to building, to configuring
    Openswan as the VPN gateway to deploy IPsec using Openswan. It not
    only for Linux clients, but also the more commonly used Operating
    Systems such as Microsoft Windows and MacOSX. Furthermore it discusses
    common interoperability examples for third party vendors, such as
    Cisco, Checkpoint, Netscreen and other common IPsec vendors.

    The authors bring you first hand information, as they are the
    official developers of the Openswan code. They have included the
    latest developments and upcoming issues. With experience in answering
    questions on a daily basis on the mailing lists since the creation
    of Openswan, the authors are by far the most experienced in a wide
    range of successful and not so successful uses of Openswan by people
    worldwide.


You can download a sample chapter which includes the full Table Of Contents
from Packt's website:

http://www.packtpub.com/files/openswan_chapter3_building_and_installing_openswan.pdf