Openswan AlternativesVPN Services and other similar apps like Openswan

Openswan is described as 'IPsec implementation for Linux. It has support for most of the extensions (RFC + IETF drafts) related to IPsec, including IKEv2, X.509 Digital Certificates, NAT Traversal, and many others' and is a VPN service in the security & privacy category. There are three alternatives to Openswan for Linux, Android, BSD and Mac. The best Openswan alternative is strongSwan, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Openswan are IPsec-Tools and Libreswan.

Copy a direct link to this comment to your clipboard
Openswan alternatives page was last updated

Alternatives list

  1. strongSwan icon
     7 likes

    strongSwan is an Open Source IPsec-based VPN solution for Linux and other UNIX based operating systems implementing both the IKEv1 and IKEv2 key exchange protocols.

    12 strongSwan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Android
     
  2.  2 likes

    IPsec-Tools is a port of KAME's IPsec utilities to the Linux-2.6 IPsec implementation. It supports NetBSD and FreeBSD as well.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  3. Libreswan icon
     2 likes

    ibreswan 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...

    3 Libreswan alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
3 of 3 Openswan alternatives