Re: [IPsec] Avoiding Authentication Header (AH)

"Bhatia, Manav (Manav)" <manav.bhatia@alcatel-lucent.com> Thu, 05 January 2012 14:37 UTC

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From: "Bhatia, Manav (Manav)" <manav.bhatia@alcatel-lucent.com>
To: Tero Kivinen <kivinen@iki.fi>
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:07:07 +0530
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> Getting WESP implemented to the boxes will require a lot of time.
> There are still lots of boxes which do not even support IKEv2 (which is required for 
> WESP) and IKEv2 has been out for 6 years already. AH might already be 

WESP can be used with manual keying the way routing protocols today use ESP and AH.

Manav