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Re: What can applications running over ipsec assume?




 > My own view is that the ipsec layer should pass the security characteristics
 > of a received packet up to the transport layer.  It, in turn, must
 > match those characteristics against what the user has requested.  Packets
 > that don't meet those requirements are dropped.
 > 
>This seems sensible. It implies modifications to APIs at 2 layer boundaries.
>I guess if there was work proceeding to define these API changes you would
>have mentioned it...

This would be very useful and if we do an API can we PLEASE make sure
its not just for UNIX but can be used by MVS, VMS, NT, WINSOCK, etc..

thanks
/jim


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