Re: suites vs. a la carte and IPcomp in IKEv2-05

[Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com>]

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> writes:

 Eric> Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com> writes:
 >> I wonder: is this still a real issue today?  It would be good not
 >> to add messes to the protocol to support strange hardware
 >> architectures that are long obsolete.  Certainly this issue
 >> doesn't appear in any hardware I have ever seen.  (Come to think
 >> of it, if I saw this when doing device selection, I'd be very
 >> tempted to exclude such a device.)

 Eric> It's generally not an issue of individual pieces of hardware
 Eric> but of what happens when you have an implementation based on
 Eric> multiple CSP-like modules.

 Eric> Say, for the sake of argument that you have a piece of hardware
 Eric> that processes single IPsec records and supports 3DES and SHA.
 Eric> You then add another CSP that supports AES and MD5. You can't
 Eric> necessarily mix and match here, so you need to provide
 Eric> profiles.

Sure, you can suppose such things, but are they real?  That's my
point.  I can't think of real hardware that matches your supposition.

	paul