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Re: pf_key comments



Perry,

>Its completely unreasonable to send the IV from the application. Since
>IVs have to be sent on every packet, that would mean you would need to
>do a PF_KEY operation on every packet. This is not going to be
>feasable.
>

IV is optional field. This is used in cases where we use a constant IV.

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