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net-vpn/openvpn - Use OpenSSL as the backend crypto library
net-vpn/strongswan - Enable <pkg>dev-libs/openssl</pkg> plugin which is required for Elliptic Curve Cryptography (DH groups 19-21,25,26) and ECDSA. Also provides 3DES, AES, Blowfish, Camellia, CAST, DES, IDEA and RC5 ciphers along with MD2, MD4, MD5 and SHA1/2 hash algorithms, RSA and DH groups 1,2,5,14-18 and 22-24(4.4+) <pkg>dev-libs/openssl</pkg> has to be compiled with USE="-bindist".