Re: Suggested modification to AES privacy draft

[Alex Alten <Alten@netvista.net>]

Not to mention 802.11b.  - Alex

At 12:24 PM 1/8/2002 -0500, Henry Spencer wrote:
>On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Paul Koning wrote:
>> Second, for (b), most LANs are largely or entirely switched LANs...
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>I think that's overstating the case.  It may be true that most *new* LANs
>are largely switched, but there are still a huge number of non-switched
>LANs in service, especially small ones.  Only recently have switch prices
>fallen to the point that they are interesting even to people without major
>security or performance concerns.  Plain old shared 10Mbit/s Ethernet is
>good enough to keep an awful lot of people happy. 
>
>                                                          Henry Spencer
>                                                       henry@spsystems.net
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Alex Alten
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