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Re: ports in the clear...



Completely understood. I was stating the obvious.  :-/

- paul

At 07:11 PM 4/22/96 -0700, Ran Atkinson wrote:

>Paul,
>
>	I understand that there are folks who want to count packets.
>However, the _purpose_ of using IPsec is to make it difficult for an
>adversary to know what is going on.  If a user has turned on IPsec for his
>traffic, its because the user does not want this information in the clear,
>else the user would have used upper-layer security services instead of
>IPsec.
>
>Ran
>rja@cisco.com
>
>
>