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RE: Mobile IPv6 - IPsec interaction.





Mohan Parthasarathy writes:
> 1) In Main Mode, it uses the Care of Address as the source address (
>     it can't use the Home Address yet as the other end either has
>     a stale binding or no bindings and hence we can't get the reply
>     back) and uses an appropriate authentication mechanism
>     to establish the Phase I SA.

>It cannot use care of address as its identity in phase I. The care of
>address does not have any meaning to the home agent. It needs to use
>something in the phase I that will identify the mobile node to the
>home agent.

>This could be username@host.name (user@fqdn),
>fixed.domain.name.at.home (fqdn) or distinguished name. Using of those
>also rules out using of main mode with pre-shared keys, thus the best
>would be using certificates (signatures).

Why using user@fqdn,fixed.domain.name.at.home (fqdn) or distinguished name
rules out using main mode with pre-shared keys ?
Thank you.


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