Introducing Centrify DirectSecure Part 3: Leveraging the Racoon Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Daemon

Part 3 of our series takes a deeper look at the architecture of Centrify DirectSecure, explaining how Centrify leveraged and customized the Racoon Internet Key Exchange (IKE) protocol daemon to efficiently and reliably secure your local and wide area networks. For more background, see Introducing Centrify DirectSecure Part 2: Securing UNIX and Linux Systems with IPsec and Active Directory

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Running Time

40 minutes

Speaker

Paul Moore
Chief Technical Officer

Moderator

David McNeely
Director, Product Management

Topics Covered

  • Enhancing Racoon for both Linux and Solaris platforms for enterprise-scale applications
  • How Racoon diverged from the Open SWAN, Free SWAN, and Strong SWAN IKE code bases
  • Using Coverity and Valgrind to bullet-proof open source code for enterprise use
  • How DirectSecure and IKE use certificate trust chains and CRLS