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RE: IPsec hardware accelerators (Rainbow warning)

To: Roy Pereira <rpereira@TimeStep.com>
Subject: RE: IPsec hardware accelerators (Rainbow warning)
From: Bob Monsour <rmonsour@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 11:22:47 -0800
Cc: "'IETF Security Test mailing list'" <ietf-sectest@toad.com>, "'IPSEC Mailing List'" <ipsec@tis.com>, "'isakmp-oakley'" <isakmp-oakley@cisco.com>
Sender: owner-ipsec@ex.tis.com

In the next day or so, I will be putting together a summary of the
compression issues raised at the meeting and making some specific
suggestions on direction. I've been meaning to do this, but have been tied
up with other things.

-Bob

At 09:49 AM 1/23/97 -0500, Roy Pereira wrote:
>What has been going on with compression in ESP?  I haven't heard
>anything since December's IETF.  We talked about adding a byte in front
>of pad length to represent compression flags (like whether the data was
>compressed).
>
>
>
>>----------
>>From: 	Bob Monsour[SMTP:rmonsour@earthlink.net]
>>Sent: 	Wednesday, January 22, 1997 4:17 PM
>>To: 	John.Chalk%datacraft.com.au@datacraft.com.au
>>Cc: 	gnu@toad.com; ipsec@tis.com
>>Subject: 	Re: IPsec hardware accelerators (Rainbow warning)
>>
>>Another encryption hardware vendor is Hi/fn (www.hifn.com). Forthcoming
>>chips will include encryption (DES/3DES/RC4) as well as compression and MAC
>>computation (SHA/MD5). 
>>
>>For those concerned about the processing requirements of software DES, note
>>that the use of compression prior to encrypting reduces the workload placed
>>on the encryptor. I included some experimental results at the Dec IPSEC wg
>>meeting.
>>
>>Bob Monsour
>>rmonsour@earthlink.net
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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