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Re: Manual keying and replay prevention



On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Rob Glenn wrote:

> I would guess that it would be difficult to "re-key" before the sequence 
> number would wrap without having a KMP.  In our own implementation (NIST),
> we're simply going to add a SA-Delete before the SN wraps in the case
> of manual key management.   In this case, the manual key management system
> is no longer "completely" manual.

Semi-automatic sounds good to me.

Norm


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