Replay field size in AH

Naganand Doraswamy <naganand@ftp.com> Fri, 07 February 1997 14:30 UTC

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The replay field size in AH is 64 bits. It is 32 bits in ESP drafts. We can
change the AH draft to use only 32 bits for replay and make the other 4
bytes reserved if we are concerned about the 64bit boundary alignment?
Naganand