libreswan

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Project Summary

Libreswan is a free software implementation of the most widely supported and standarized VPN protocol based on ("IPsec") and the Internet Key Exchange ("IKE"). These standards are produced and maintained by the Internet Engineering Task Force ("IETF").

In a Nutshell, libreswan...

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has had 38,639 commits made by 165 contributors
representing 198,500 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with a very well-commented source code
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a large development team
with increasing Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 51 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in October, 2005
ending with its most recent commit 1 day ago

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