RE: is manual keying mandatory

William Dixon <wdixon@microsoft.com> Wed, 18 March 1998 21:38 UTC

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From: William Dixon <wdixon@microsoft.com>
To: 'Roy Pereira' <rpereira@TimeStep.com>, "IPSEC Mailing List (E-mail)" <ipsec@tis.com>
Subject: RE: is manual keying mandatory
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 13:51:35 -0800
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Since we have put so much effort into IKE now, I don't think it should be a
MUST.

Wm
William Dixon,
Program Manager,  IP Security
Windows Networking Product Group


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Roy Pereira [SMTP:rpereira@TimeStep.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, March 18, 1998 1:15 PM
> To:	IPSEC Mailing List (E-mail)
> Subject:	is manual keying mandatory
> 
> Is manual keying a required feature of IPSec?  
> In other words, if you do not support manual keying then are you
> IPSec-compliant or not?
> 
> There seams to bea bit of confusion surrounding this topic and I would
> like to see what people think.