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Re: ESP transform with RC5



In a galaxy far, far away, perry@piermont.com said:
> Just for context for everyone, the RSA DSI folks are (or at least,
> were) attempting to push this thing they call S/WAN, which is
> basically IPsec using RC5 to make it into something proprietary that
> RSA DSI has a patent on and thus gets royalties for. It doesn't have
> any real advantages to anyone other than RSA DSI, which has an obvious

  For a little more context: the RSA folks got most of the firewall vendors
together last August to discuss RSA DSI and firewalls. We had a problem: we
needed to interoperate on virtual private network technology, particularly
when it came to road-warrior notebooks. We agreed that swipe and SKIP were
interesting, but that the firewall vendors had to implement something that
the PC/Mac stack vendors were going to implement. 
  Thus S/WAN was born. Just take the then current ipsec, nail some parameters
down, and take the first step.
  The various vendors didn't really have anyone that they felt could coordinate
their efforts. While RSA Data Systems isn't a dis-interested party, at least
they are non-firewall-vendor aligned: we know what their interests are. 

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