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Internet Key Daemon (IKE)

IKE is a profile of ISAKMP that is for use by IPsec. It is often called simply ``IKE''. IKE creates a private, authenticated key management channel. Using that channel, two peers can communicate, arranging for sessions keys to be generated for AH, ESP or IPcomp. The channel is used for the peers to agree on the encryption, authentication and compression algorithms that will be used. The traffic to which the policies will applied is also agreed upon.



Michael Richardson
2002-06-26