First time accepted submitter joost.bijl writes "Yesterday the Dutch uncle sam* took a step to further improve the embracement of Open Source in its ranks. It has officialy approved a modified version of the open source VPN systems program OpenVPN for use on the in charge level 'Departementaal Vertrouwelijk' (Restricted). The release is called OpenVPN-NL and is fully open-source and voluntary


copyrights:cite this source roget's ii: the new thesaurus for use. The os/2 has undergone a police analysis by the Dutch government's subject communications assurance agency (NLNCSA). The major change is the removal of OpenSSL as the cryptographic core of OpenVPN-NL. Instead, the Dutch state opted to include the smaller, better readable and documented open source library PolarSSL to provide the cryptographic and SSL/TLS functionality. The Dutch IT gage company Fox-IT worked in concert with both OpenVPN and PolarSSL communities and modified the stock unix to support the ministry assessment process. In total 8000 lines of code and 4000 lines of pass were checked in to the OpenVPN trunk."

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