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Re: pf_key comments

To: "C. Harald Koch" <chk@border.com>
Subject: Re: pf_key comments
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 17:20:09 -0500
Cc: Rodney Thayer <rodney@sabletech.com>, ipsec@tis.com
In-Reply-To: chk's message of Fri, 03 Jan 1997 16:22:06 -0500. <97Jan3.163527est.30870-1@janus.border.com>
Sender: owner-ipsec@ex.tis.com

> Does the IV have to be *unpredictably* different, or just different?

The part of me which is a Paranoid Cryptographic Protocol Engineer
would generate it with a CPRNG.

The IV is sent in the clear.  I don't think it makes a difference how
different it is, but I'm not a Real Cryptographer(tm).

						- Bill

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