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Introduction

OpenHIP is a free, open source implementation of the Host Identity Protocol (HIP) for use on multiple operating systems.

From the HIP base specification:

   The Host Identity Protocol (HIP) provides a rapid exchange of Host
   Identities between two hosts.  The exchange also establishes a pair
   IPsec Security Associations (SA), to be used with IPsec Encapsulated
   Security Payload (ESP).  The HIP protocol is designed to be
   resistant to Denial-of-Service (DoS) and Man-in-the-middle (MitM)
   attacks, and when used to enable ESP, provides DoS and MitM
   protection for upper layer protocols, such as TCP and UDP.

   The Host Identity Protocol introduces a new namespace, the Host
   Identity.  The effects of this change are explained in the companion
   document, the HIP architecture specification.

Licensing

OpenHIP software and documentation is licensed by the GNU GPLv2:

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Note: Our bind-9 patch is licensed as modified BSD, for compatibility with bind.

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The current release is hipd-0.5, available as source for OS X and Linux, and installation packages for Windows XP, OS X (universal binary), and Debian RPMs

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