KAME project

{{Short description|IPv6 and IPsec stack for BSD derivatives}}

The KAME project, a sub-project of the WIDE Project, was a joint effort of six organizations in Japan that aimed to provide a free IPv6 and IPsec (for both IPv4 and IPv6) protocol stack implementation for variants of the BSD Unix computer operating-system.{{cite book

| last=Hagen

| first=Silvia

| author-link=Silvia Hagen

| title=IPv6 Essentials

| publisher=O'Reilly Media

| date=May 17, 2006

| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZurkaAf3py0C

| isbn=9780596553418}} The project began in 1998, and on November 7, 2005, it was announced that it would be finished at the end of March 2006.{{cite web

| url=https://www.kame.net/newsletter/20051107/

| title=The announcement of the conclusion of the KAME project

| date=2005-11-07

| publisher=KAME project

| accessdate=2019-03-17}} The name KAME is a short version of Karigome, the location of the project's offices beside Keio University SFC.{{cite web

| url=http://playground.iijlab.net/material/kazu-kame-presen/mgp00015.html

| title=Page 15: KAME Project

| author=Kazu YAMAMOTO

| date=July 1999

| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705142709/http://playground.iijlab.net/material/kazu-kame-presen/mgp00015.html

| archivedate=2008-07-05

| url-status=dead}}

KAME Project's code is based on the "WIDE Hydrangea" IPv6/IPsec stack by WIDE Project.

The following organizations participated in the project:

• ALAXALA Networks Corporation
• Fujitsu
• Hitachi
• Internet Initiative Japan
• Keio University
• NEC
• University of Tokyo
• Toshiba
• Yokogawa Electric Corporation

FreeBSD, NetBSD and DragonFly BSD integrated IPsec and IPv6 code from the KAME project; OpenBSD integrated just IPv6 code rather than both (having developed their own IPsec stack). Linux also integrated code from the project in its native IPsec implementation.{{citation

| url= https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7840

| title= Benchmarks for Native IPsec in the 2.6 Kernel

| publisher= Linux Journal

| first= Vincent

| last= Roy

| date= 12 October 2004

| accessdate= 2019-03-17}}

The KAME project collaborated with the TAHI Project{{cite web

| url=http://www.tahi.org/

| title=TAHI Project: Test and Verification for IPv6. Since 1998

| date=2013-01-01

| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170127070102/http://www.tahi.org/

| archivedate=2017-01-27

| url-status=dead}} (which develops and provides verification-technology for IPv6), the USAGI Project{{cite web

| url=https://www.linux-ipv6.org/

| title=USAGI Project - Linux IPv6 Development Project

| date=2010-03-07

| author=YOSHIFUJI Hideaki

| accessdate=2019-03-17}} and the WIDE Project.