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AH is pretty useless and perhaps should be deprecated
- Subject: AH is pretty useless and perhaps should be deprecated
- From: owen at delong.com (Owen DeLong)
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:49:40 -0800
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I've never seen anyone use AH vs. ESP. I've always used ESP and so has
every other IPSEC implementation I've seen anyone do.
Owen
On Nov 13, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Jack Kohn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Interesting discussion on the utility of Authentication Header (AH) in
> IPSecME WG.
>
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ipsec/current/msg05026.html
>
> Post explaining that AH even though protecting the source and
> destination IP addresses is really not good enough.
>
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ipsec/current/msg05056.html
>
> What do folks feel? Do they see themselves using AH in the future?
> IMO, ESP and WESP are good enough and we dont need to support AH any
> more ..
>
> Jack