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Re: ESP revisions straw poll



At 02:44 PM 5/14/97 -0700, Daniel Harkins wrote:
>  We've moved beyond simple wordsmithing in these changes. The patient 
>is now under general anesthetic and we're carving a hole in his chest. 
>In that light, I'd like to propose a final operation (if he was under 
>local anesthetic I wouldn't dare). I'd like to see making authentication
>uniform. And, of course, doing away with encryptionless (and 
>authenticationless) ESP.

Hear.  Hear.  Except for the authenticationless.  If only has to do AH
to get the IP header, you don't want to do another authentication.  (I'd
rather see ESP follow the same exact rules as AH...)
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