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IPsec Overview
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IPsec is a set of communication rules or protocols for setting up secure
connections over a network. |prod| utilizes IPsec to protect local traffic
on the internal management network of multi-node systems.

|prod| uses strongSwan as the IPsec implementation. strongSwan is an
opensource IPsec solution located at https://strongswan.org/.

For the most part, IPsec on |prod| is transparent to users.