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Re: ESP transform with RC5
At 03:01 PM 3/18/96 -0500, Michael Richardson wrote:
>
> 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.
This, of course, is of key interest to the auto industry. We need this sort
of interoperability on a fairly large scale. This is why I have been active
in the IPSEC wg, in case you haven't guessed ;)
Robert Moskowitz
Chrysler Corporation
(810) 758-8212