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Re: null encryption

To: Juha Heinanen <jh@lohi.eng.telia.fi>
Subject: Re: null encryption
From: Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 13:26:38 -0400 (EDT)
cc: ipsec@tis.com
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> i don't know if the authors of the null encryption i-d have thought so,
> but ipsec can be used as a generic tunneling mechanism alternative to
> l2tp and in that application neither strong autentication nor encryption
> is always be desirable.

RFC 2003 defined a generic tunnelling mechanism two years ago; there is no
need to misapply IPSEC for this. 

I think it would be safe to say that such an application is beyond the 
intended scope of IPSEC, and hence need not be addressed by the IPSEC
documents.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry@spsystems.net
                                                     (henry@zoo.toronto.edu)

References:

null encryption

From: Juha Heinanen <jh@lohi.eng.telia.fi>

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