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Re: Authentication using ESP in Transport Mode
At 03:16 PM 7/5/96 -0400, Michael Richardson wrote:
>In a galaxy far, far away, : Fri, 05 Jul 1996 11:29:03 EST
>> end-to-end authentication of IP headers. It is desirable to tweak the
>> architecture so that authentication provided by ESP has the same
>> security as authentication provided by AH. Then only a single security
>> header is needed for end-to-end confidentiality + authentication.
>
> Except that tunnel mode will most often be used by security gateways, not
>the end-to-end contents.
Not quite. I THINK it will be used in end-to-gateway-to-end as well. Yes?
Robert Moskowitz
Chrysler Corporation
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