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July 2016 Meet

Saturday 16th July, 1pm to 6pm at Broad Oak Sports and Social Club

Open Source VPN with strongSwan Assure

Andrew Wilkins

Andrew Wilkins studied computer system engineering at Univerity of Sussex, and for the last 5 years has been working as an engineer at the open source software company Sirius Corporation.

Sirius Corporation recently completed project to have the strongSwan IPSec VPN software certified by the UK government's Communications-Electronics Security Group. This is the first piece of open source software to be certified by the CESG CPA assurance scheme.

This talk will discuss the CPA assurance scheme and what is involved in getting software certified by CESG. It will also give an overview of the strongSwan IPSec VPN software and a practical demonstration of setting up a simple vpn using IPSec.

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