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Re: "user" and "network layer" security mechanisms.


> I think you are missing the point Perry.  For example, if you have six 
> concurrent users of an X.400 product that makes use of an RFC 1006 
> convergence module for its OSI "transport connections", you wind up with
> user data from six user-level security associations multiplexed over a
> single TCP connection.

Sorry, that's impossible.  RFC 1006 (and RFC 1859) only allows one OSI
transport connection per TCP connection; multiplexing multiple connections
is specificly not allowed.  Therefore there is always a one-to-one mapping.

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