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Multiple Phase 1 Channels between hosts?



Hi,

Is anyone supporting multiple phase 1 channels between the same two hosts
when Main mode is used in the phase 1 negotiations?  I ask this for two
reasons:

1> Is there is a real need for a user to be able to specify that
particular phase 1 security parameters protect particular phase 2 SA
negotiations? 

2> If 1> is true then it seems to me that when Main mode is used, the
responder is going to have a hard time determining the correct Phase 1
security policy to use in phase 1 negotiations and also that a particular
Phase 2 negotiation was protected by the "correct" Phase 1 SA as specified
by local security policy.  

The following diagram shows different Phase 1 channels protecting different
Phase 2 SA negotiations (for different client ID pairs).

Host                                                  Host
 A                                                      B
---                                                    ---
|                                                        |
|______________Phase 1 using DES, HMD5___________________|
|  |                                            |        |
|  |___________Phase 2 using AH HMD5____________|        |
|              (authenticate DNS)                        |
|                                                        |  
|                                                        |
|______________Phase 1 using 3DES, SHA___________________|
   |                                            |
   |___________Phase 2 using AH+ESP ____________|         
               (auth/encrypt email) 

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Will Fiveash    
IBM AIX System Development        Internet: will@austin.ibm.com
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