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OpenSSL vs Openswan: What are the differences?
What is OpenSSL? Full-featured toolkit for the Transport Layer Security and Secure Sockets Layer protocols. It is a robust, commercial-grade, and full-featured toolkit for the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols. It is also a general-purpose cryptography library.
What is Openswan? An IPsec implementation for Linux. It is an 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.
OpenSSL and Openswan belong to "Security" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by OpenSSL are:
- Robust
- Commercial-grade
- Transport Layer Security
On the other hand, Openswan provides the following key features:
- IPsec
- IKEv2
- X.509 Digital Certificates
