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Re: is manual keying mandatory
William Dixon writes:
> Since we have put so much effort into IKE now, I don't think it should be a
> MUST.
I would strongly disagree. VERY strongly.
There are very real conditions in which people will want to exchange
keys by methods other than IKE. The difficulty of providing manual
configuration is so low that there is almost no savings in not making
it mandatory.
.pm
> Wm
> William Dixon,
> Program Manager, IP Security
> Windows Networking Product Group
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Roy Pereira [SMTP:rpereira@TimeStep.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 1998 1:15 PM
> > To: IPSEC Mailing List (E-mail)
> > Subject: is manual keying mandatory
> >
> > Is manual keying a required feature of IPSec?
> > In other words, if you do not support manual keying then are you
> > IPSec-compliant or not?
> >
> > There seams to bea bit of confusion surrounding this topic and I would
> > like to see what people think.
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