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Re: SOI QUESTIONS: 2.3 Authentication styles

To: IP Security List <ipsec@lists.tislabs.com>
Subject: Re: SOI QUESTIONS: 2.3 Authentication styles
From: Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 16:00:43 -0400 (EDT)
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On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Paul Hoffman / VPNC wrote:
> As draft-ietf-ipsec-revised-identity points out, if SOI supports 
> preshared secrets that are not tied to IP addresses (that is, where 
> each party says what ID is associated with the preshared secret it is 
> using), legacy authentication comes for free...

I must say that although I've never been a legacy-authentication fan in
general, if the details of this work out right, it sounds very attractive.
There are a lot of users who want legacy authentication to work *somehow*.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry@spsystems.net

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- Re: SOI QUESTIONS: 2.3 Authentication styles
  - From: Paul Hoffman / VPNC <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>

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