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• Launchpad Entry: foo

• Packages affected: network-manager(-gnome)

Summary

The idea would be to have a plugin for Network Manager that handles ipsec configuration, via racoon or another tool.

The aim would be to have a plugin like the vpn plugins, that support the different kinds of ipsec configuration and that is able to detect the networks and load the correct ipsec config.

Release Note

This package is to provide the end-user a much more user-friendly interface to high security network connection options.

Rationale

Network security, especially on wireless networks is a growing issue. Eventhough solution such as WPA2 tends to be secure enough, for some greater networks or networks where security is critical, methods such as vpn or ipsec based methods may be the only solutions.

Vpn like methods are supported by quite a few range of plugins for network-manager, but there is none for using directly ipsec over ip.

Such a plugin may help users to configure easily their connection, and network administrators to give simple instruction on how to connect.

Use Cases

This should be a plugin for Network-Manager, that also autodetect the network (at least in case of wireless connection) and load the correct settings.

Assumptions

This plugin is probably most likely an interface to racoon/racoon-tools or directly to ipsec-tools.

Design

• a python plugin should do the trick

Implementation

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UI Changes

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Code Changes

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Migration

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• data migration, if any
• redirects from old URLs to new ones, if any
• how users will be pointed to the new way of doing things, if necessary.

Test/Demo Plan

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This need not be added or completed until the specification is nearing beta.

Outstanding Issues

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BoF agenda and discussion

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