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Re: RFC 2401 section 5.2.1

On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> 	most of routing protocol needs to somehow protect IPv6 source address,
> 	as they will use (peers') IPv6 source address as the nexthop router
> 	information...

Many of the death-to-AH enthusiasts also favoring killing transport mode
and doing everything with tunnel mode, in which case the inner headers --
the ones that would be visible to applications -- are fully protected. 
(Notably, they can be encrypted as well as authenticated, if desired.)

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry@spsystems.net
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