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Re: Please kill preshared key.
On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, david chen wrote:
> What I infered is that
> the pre-shared symmetric key can be used for both authentication and
> encryption without key-exchange (KE) since this key is exchnaged through
> 'out-of-band' secured channel and is *intended* for the two devices only.
Your inference is incorrect. That is not how today's IPSec PSK works.
Henry Spencer
henry@spsystems.net
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