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Re: IPSec Throughput



Is that only authentication or encryption as well that is required?

Theo
(UCL)

>To All,
>
>Does anyone know what effect IPSec has on a particular transmission?  I read t
>he RFC and it stated that the AH is 31 bytes long.  Is this the only overhead 
>to an encrypted packet?  If not, what else is added and how much overhead?  If
> a 1meg file is encrypted using IPSec, what does the header/encryption add to 
>this file?
>
>Any feedback would be appreciated.
>
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