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Re: IPSEC Security Gateways & NAT

"jshukla" <jshukla@earthlink.net> writes:

> Right! The point is that pre-shared keys based authentication
> can be made more robust against DoS attacks compared to
> the other three authentication methods. In their current form,
> all authencitation methods are susceptible to DoS attacks.

Well, an attacker need not request pre-shared key based
authentication.  Also, this DoS prevention is at the expense
of ID protection.

> regards,
> Jayant

-derek
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