Currently waiting to see what the template will be like for this one. Past templates have had at least one annoying 'bug' with one thing or another.

Louay has sent the template, but still not a Word version of chapter 1. I haven't looked at the template, hope it works for a change! I've suggested a schedule of 16 days, giving two days per chapter. Hopefully this will be manageable.

A VPN is a secure network link that can travel over the public internet. So it clearly uses some kind of cryptography in order to protect transmissions from prying eyes. Openswan uses the IPsec kernel implementation provided by its parent project, FreeS/WAN, which is no longer under development. This kernel component is known as KLIPS and does not form part of any Linux core distribution, so it must be obtained and installed separately - perhaps even requiring recompilation. Recently, an IPsec stack has been written for inclusion with Linux, this is known as 26sec. Strongswan and recent versions of FreeS/Wan and Openswan can use either of the two IPsec implementations.

So far, things I have spotted which must be checked for every chapter include:

• smart quotes


• capitalisation of terms


• double spaces


• capitalisation of headings


• therefor, then instead of than