KAME project
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The KAME project was a joint effort of six organizations in Japan which 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. The project began in 1998 and on November 7, 2005 it was announced that the project would be finished at the end of March 2006.The name KAME is a short version of Karigome, the location of the project's offices, and it also is a word for turtles.
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.
The KAME project collaborated with the TAHI Project (which develops and provides verification-technology for IPv6), the USAGI Project and the WIDE Project
.
IPv6
Internet Protocol version 6 is a version of the Internet Protocol . It is designed to succeed the Internet Protocol version 4...
and IPsec
IPsec
Internet Protocol Security is a protocol suite for securing Internet Protocol communications by authenticating and encrypting each IP packet of a communication session...
(for both IPv4 and IPv6) protocol stack
Protocol stack
The protocol stack is an implementation of a computer networking protocol suite. The terms are often used interchangeably. Strictly speaking, the suite is the definition of the protocols, and the stack is the software implementation of them....
implementation for variants of the BSD
Berkeley Software Distribution
Berkeley Software Distribution is a Unix operating system derivative developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group of the University of California, Berkeley, from 1977 to 1995...
Unix computer operating-system. The project began in 1998 and on November 7, 2005 it was announced that the project would be finished at the end of March 2006.The name KAME is a short version of Karigome, the location of the project's offices, and it also is a word for turtles.
The following organizations participated in the project:
- ALAXALA Networks Corporation
- FujitsuFujitsuis a Japanese multinational information technology equipment and services company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is the world's third-largest IT services provider measured by revenues....
, Ltd. - Hitachi, Ltd.
- Internet Initiative JapanInternet Initiative Japanis a telecommunications company based in Tokyo, Japan. Established on December 3, 1992, it employs 1,715 people and has a capitalization of ￥14,295,000,000. They provide internet connectivity and network-related services, network systems construction, operation and maintenance, development and...
Inc. - Keio UniversityKeio University,abbreviated as Keio or Keidai , is a Japanese university located in Minato, Tokyo. It is known as the oldest institute of higher education in Japan. Founder Fukuzawa Yukichi originally established it as a school for Western studies in 1858 in Edo . It has eleven campuses in Tokyo and Kanagawa...
- NEC Corporation
- University of TokyoUniversity of Tokyo, abbreviated as , is a major research university located in Tokyo, Japan. The University has 10 faculties with a total of around 30,000 students, 2,100 of whom are foreign. Its five campuses are in Hongō, Komaba, Kashiwa, Shirokane and Nakano. It is considered to be the most prestigious university...
- ToshibaToshibais a multinational electronics and electrical equipment corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is a diversified manufacturer and marketer of electrical products, spanning information & communications equipment and systems, Internet-based solutions and services, electronic components and...
Corporation - Yokogawa Electric Corporation
FreeBSD
FreeBSD
FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via BSD UNIX. Although for legal reasons FreeBSD cannot be called “UNIX”, as the direct descendant of BSD UNIX , FreeBSD’s internals and system APIs are UNIX-compliant...
, NetBSD
NetBSD
NetBSD is a freely available open source version of the Berkeley Software Distribution Unix operating system. It was the second open source BSD descendant to be formally released, after 386BSD, and continues to be actively developed. The NetBSD project is primarily focused on high quality design,...
and DragonFly BSD
DragonFly BSD
DragonFly BSD is a free Unix-like operating system created as a fork of FreeBSD 4.8. Matthew Dillon, an Amiga developer in the late 1980s and early 1990s and a FreeBSD developer between 1994 and 2003, began work on DragonFly BSD in June 2003 and announced it on the FreeBSD mailing lists on July...
integrated IPSec and IPv6 code from the KAME project; OpenBSD
OpenBSD
OpenBSD is a Unix-like computer operating system descended from Berkeley Software Distribution , a Unix derivative developed at the University of California, Berkeley. It was forked from NetBSD by project leader Theo de Raadt in late 1995...
integrated just IPv6 code rather than both (having developed their own IPSec stack). Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
also integrated code from the project in its native IPSec implementation.
The KAME project collaborated with the TAHI Project (which develops and provides verification-technology for IPv6), the USAGI Project and the WIDE Project
WIDE Project
The WIDE Project , founded over 20 years ago , is an Internet project in Japan. It runs a major backbone of the Japanese Internet and used to run the .jp TLD....
.