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Re: [Hipsec] [saag] NULL encryption mode in RFC 5202-bis

Ted Lemon <ted.lemon@nominum.com> Tue, 22 July 2014 17:49 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Hipsec] [saag] NULL encryption mode in RFC 5202-bis
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On Jul 22, 2014, at 11:25 AM, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> wrote:
> Ted, you are assuming that there are no policy knobs at all.

No, I am assuming that there _are_ policy knobs, and saying what I think their default values should be.

But to be clear, I would expect surfing the web legally over a ham radio link to be pretty unsatisfying, because you would get no encrypted content, and lots of content is encrypted.   I am saying that this should not change.

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