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Re: weakness in IKE/DOI specs
If we need bigger numbers, we can simply add a new SA Life Type of, say,
days or GB. I think that 32 bits is more than enough granularity.
-Dan
Tero Kivinen wrote:
>I think we should allow 64 bit values also. In 30 years (2.8.2029
>23:48 GMT) those sending data using 10 gigabit radio link to mars
>using ipsec are quite sure to curse us we, because we force them to
>wait for 33 minutes every 7 minutes (the distance between earth and
>Mars is 1.38 AU).
>Of course we can define that support for 16 and 32 bit lifetimes is
>mandatory, and implemenations may support 64 bit lifetimes for
>kilobytes.
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