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RE: AH/ESP edits
>Pending items
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>1. ESP: location of the IV in the payload section -- Should the IV be
> specified as always at the beginning, default at the beginning of the
> payload field with the option of algorithm-specific locations or
> always algorithm-specific? (see email from Steve Kent on 6/3/97)
I'm not sure that a section concerning IVs needs to be in the main ESP
document since IVs are only used for a particular type of cipher
algorithm (CBC) and not all of them. I would leave this entirely up to
the algorithm-specific document.
>2. AH: Payload length -- Should this be AH header minus 2 32-bit words
> or minus 3 words? In recent drafts, this field has been specified as
> the AH header minus the fixed portion (This was 2 32-bit words and is
> now 3 words). (see email from Steve Kent on 6/3/97).
Keep it the same as previous documents.
>