Re: The TCP and UDP checksum algorithm may soon need updating

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Wed, 10 June 2020 02:25 UTC

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Subject: Re: The TCP and UDP checksum algorithm may soon need updating
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From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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On 10-Jun-20 11:52, Michael Thomas wrote:
> 
> On 6/8/20 1:57 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>> On 09-Jun-20 07:02, Nico Williams wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 11:23:09AM -0700, Michael Thomas wrote:
>>>> ssl had the advantage that it 1) beat ipsec to market, and 2) wasn't subject
>>>> to API differences from OS layer calls like IPsec was, and with quite a bit
>>>> of churn as i recall too. it's really too bad, imo. we wouldn't have had to
>>>> do the contortions of dtls, for example. and now there's this problem. none
>>>> of them are earth shattering, but it would have been cleaner.
>>> You can sprinkle TLS anywhere you have an octet stream.  You can
>>> sprinkle DTLS anywhere you have datagram flows.
>> Unless someone says "multicast".
> 
> 
> Hasn't that word been obsoleted and reserved for future use? :)

As a desirable function, certainly not. As a feature that is intrinsic
to your favourite L2 technology, and therefore a fairly simple add-on
to layer 3, its days are numbered. As an easy thing to secure, hmm.

   Brian