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Re: per-host keying




 >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com> writes:
     Stephen> At 8:37 PM -0400 7/14/01, Michael Richardson wrote:
     >> Thanks for the responses. I figured that I was blind.
     >> 
     >> Should 2401 be revised at some point, I suggest the words "per-host keying"
     >> be added to 4.4.1 section (a).

     Stephen> In revising 2401 I plan to reword the selector discussion 
     Stephen> extensively, to clarify this detail that, as you noted, is easily 
     Stephen> missed.  However, I would not call it "per host keying" because it 
     Stephen> can be used to achieve finer granularity keying.  Still, we can put 
     Stephen> in the phrase (to make it easy to search for) as part of the 
     Stephen> discussion.

   I suggest just adding text like:
     "This mode can not only be used to create per-host or per-port keyed
     SAs, but also to create new SA based upon unique values of any set of
     selectors."

   Anyway... thanks for all the pointers.

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