Information about SUG and SIPO

Introduction

SUG does not officially exist, it is just a group of former and current
employees of SSH Communication Security Corp, who adapted the SSH IPVia
Security Gateway (also known as the "Box") for general use. Most of us
use the "Box" as a firewall.

SIPO was an internal "code name" for SSH's hardware VPN project. No
matter what marketing said ("SSH Complete VPN" or "SSH IPVia") it was
always SIPO to most people at SSH.

The official project was grounded by management in the spring of
2002. Quickly after the cancellation the project, SUG ("officially"
called GPL SIPO) was "founded" by Jouni Malinen and Marko Teiste.

SIPO is dead, long live SIPO.

Users

Pre-built images

You can use prebuilt images to set up your "Box".

To upgrade IPVia SGW ("Box" with official SSH bootloader), you must first
upgrade the bootloader using ssh-signed-bootloader.image. The standard
bootloader will only load official SSH signed images, you cannot use it
to load other images you may find here.

For further instructions, see the README file.

Note that the signed bootloader may not be the most recent one available.

There is no legal way we can make an image that can be loaded using the
standard SSH bootloader. The signed bootloader upgrade was created with
an explicit one-time permission by SSH, but this project does not have
the tools or licenses to sign new images.

Tarball

If you want to, you can compile your own images from scratch. Either
use the tarball in files or download the cvs version.

Support and mailing lists

Currently there are no active mailing lists anywhere. If you have
questions, you can always send an email to me or Jouni Malinen.

Developers

What's new?

Please add entries for all non-minor changes to the ChangeLog so that
it will be easier for others to follow what is going on. [stick to the
format used by Jouni, anything else will barf the script that creates
the list of recent changes in the front page. mte]

CVS access

You found this place, so you already know that the epitest respository
cannot be used any longer. See cvs for up to date information.

Development mailing list

Does not exist at this time.

Marko Teiste 2003-11-12 08:10
© 2003, Jouni Malinen & Marko Teiste