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Re: IPSEC SMIB
At the risk of starting another flurry of notes.....
On Aug 10, 3:04pm, Steve Kent wrote:
> COMPRESSION
> This is the ordered list of compression algorithms.
> {Compression of the IPSP payload is likely to be needed for low
> speed IP access links when encryption is employed, due to the
> loss of compression ability after encryption has been applied.}
The speed of compression hardware is becoming fast enough that
compressing a 150Mb/s stream is possible. Thus the verbage "for low
speed IP access links" is not correct. In any case, without these
words, the point is still valid.
> ENCRYPTION
>
> ALGORTIHM
> This is a structured, IANA-registered algorithm ID that
> also specifies the mode of use, e.g., DES-CBC or DES-EDE2-CBC, or
> DES-CFB-8.
(nit) The acronym IANA is not defined in this document.
There must be a method of giving entities (corporations?) sets of numbers
which they are allowed to control. It would be nice if these numbers were
prefaced in such a way as being globally unique, as the IEEE 48 bit MAC
addresses are.
This is true for all of the algorithms.
jim
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