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RE:Packet-by-packet compression within IPSec



Bob Monsour:
>MY PROPOSAL
>
>The essence of my proposal is to add simple, straightforward language
>(provided below) to the ESP draft which allows compression to be performed
>on a packet-by-packet basis (keeping *NO* history or state information
>across packets). The use of compression would be negotiated as an security
>association parameter along with the algorithm to be employed. The ESP
>payload data would simply be either compressed or uncompressed and *NO*
>additional fields (in the header *OR* in the payload) would be required to
>support it. This is the simplest form of compression support. 

>Bob Monsour
>rmonsour@earthlink.net

I fully support the proposal. We have implemented a prototype
of a proprietary "encryption" (stateless compression and standard
encryption) that fulfills all the requirements set by the proposal.

Heikki.Riittinen@teamw.com from Europe