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The KAME project, a sub-project of the WIDE Project, was a joint effort of six organizations in Japan that aimed to provide a free IPv6 and IPsec (for both IPv4 and IPv6) protocol stack implementation for variants of the BSD Unix computer operating-system. [1] The project began in 1998, and on November 7, 2005, it was announced that it would be finished at the end of March 2006. [2] The name KAME is a short version of Karigome, the location of the project's offices beside Keio University SFC. [3]

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KAME Project's code is based on the "WIDE Hydrangea" IPv6/IPsec stack by WIDE Project.

The following organizations participated in the project:

FreeBSD, NetBSD and DragonFly BSD integrated IPsec and IPv6 code from the KAME project; OpenBSD integrated just IPv6 code rather than both (having developed their own IPsec stack). Linux also integrated code from the project in its native IPsec implementation. [4]

The KAME project collaborated with the TAHI Project [5] (which develops and provides verification-technology for IPv6), the USAGI Project [6] and the WIDE Project.

Racoon

racoon, KAME's user-space daemon, handles Internet Key Exchange (IKE). In Linux systems, it forms part of the ipsec-tools package.

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References

  1. Hagen, Silvia (May 17, 2006). IPv6 Essentials. O'Reilly Media. ISBN   9780596553418.
  2. "The announcement of the conclusion of the KAME project". KAME project. 2005-11-07. Retrieved 2019-03-17.
  3. Kazu YAMAMOTO (July 1999). "Page 15: KAME Project". Archived from the original on 2008-07-05.
  4. Roy, Vincent (12 October 2004), Benchmarks for Native IPsec in the 2.6 Kernel, Linux Journal , retrieved 2019-03-17
  5. "TAHI Project: Test and Verification for IPv6. Since 1998". 2013-01-01. Archived from the original on 2017-01-27.
  6. YOSHIFUJI Hideaki (2010-03-07). "USAGI Project - Linux IPv6 Development Project" . Retrieved 2019-03-17.