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The Linux FreeS/WAN project has several email lists for user support,
bug reports and software development discussions.
We had a single list on clinet.fi for several years (Thanks,
folks!), then one list on freeswan.org, but now we've split into
several lists:
-
users
-
- The general list for discussing use of the software
- The place for seeking help with problems.
- Anyone can post.
- bugs
-
- For bug reports.
- If you are not certain what is going on -- could be a bug, a
configuration error, a network problem, ... -- please post to the
users list instead.
- Anyone can post.
-
design
-
- Design discussions, for people working on
FreeS/WAN development or others with an interest in design and
security issues.
- Only subscribers can post.
-
announce
-
- A low-traffic list.
- Announcements about FreeS/WAN and related
software.
- All posts here are also sent to the users list. You need not
subscribe to both.
- Only authorised people can post.
-
briefs
-
- A low-traffic list.
- Weekly summaries of activity on the users list.
- All posts here are also sent to the users list. You need not
subscribe to both.
- Only authorised people can post.
To subscribe to any of these, you can:
- just follow the links above
- use our web interface
- send mail to listname-request@lists.freeswan.org with a
one-line message body "subscribe"
US citizens or residents are asked not to post code to the
lists, not even one-line bug fixes. The project cannot accept
code which might entangle it in US export
restrictions.
Non-subscribers can post to some of these lists. This is necessary;
someone working on a gateway install who encounters a problem may not
have access to a subscribed account.
Some spam turns up on these lists from time to time. For discussion
of why we do not attempt to filter it, see the
FAQ. Please do not clutter the lists with complaints about this.
Searchable archives of the old single list have existed for some
time. At time of writing, it is not yet clear how they will change for
the new multi-list structure.
Note that these use different search engines. Try both.
There are several other lists related to FreeS/WAN:
- an announcements only list, ipsec-announce@linuxmagic.com, with
much lower traffic than the main project list. To subscribe, send a
blank email to
ipsec-announce-subscribe@linuxmagic.com.
- a list for discussing KLIPS II, the re-design of the in-kernel
portions of FreeS/WAN. To subscribe, send a blank email to
klips-subscribe@linuxmagic.com.
- Some users find the spam, and occasional virus, on the project list
objectionable enough that they have set up a separate list with
subscriber-only posting rules and other filtering measures. There is a web page
with subscription info and links to an
archive.
- that list is also available in digest form, one message a day
PAML is the standard reference for
Publicly Accessible M
ailing Lists. When we last checked, it had over 7500
lists on an amazing variety of topics. It also has FAQ information and
a search engine.
There is an index of
Linux mailing lists available.
A list of
computer security mailing lists, with descriptions.
Most links in this section point to subscription addresses for the
various lists. Send the one-line message "subscribe list_name
" to subscribe to any of them.
-
linux-admin@vger.kernel.org, for Linux system administrators
- ipchains@rustcorp.com,
about the IPchains firewall tool
-
netfilter@samba.anu.edu.au, about Netfilter, which replaces
IPchains in kernels 2.3.15 and later
-
securedistros@humbolt.geo.uu.nl, for discussion of issues common
to all the half dozen projects working on secure Linux distributions.
Each project also has its own mailing list.
- Bastille
Linux scripts to harden Redhat, e.g. by changing permissions and
modifying inialisation scripts
- Immunix take a different
approach, using a modified compiler to build kernel and utilities
with better resistance to various types of overflow and exploit
-
security-audit@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk, for people working on security
audits of various Linux programs
- the NSA have contractors working on
a Security Enhanced Linux, primaily adding stronger access control
mechanisms. You can download the current version (which interestingly
is under GPL and not export resrtricted) or subscribe to the mailing
list from the project web page
.
Each IETF working group has an
associated mailing list where much of the work takes place.
- sci.crypt
- sci.crypt.research
- comp.dcom.vpn
- talk.politics.crypto
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