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Re: [tcpm] TCP-AO: Text for New_Key Process

Lars Eggert <lars.eggert@nokia.com> Wed, 28 January 2009 11:25 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tcpm] TCP-AO: Text for New_Key Process
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On 2009-1-27, at 23:34, Joe Touch wrote:
> I was under the assumption that our design space was as close to TCP  
> MD5 as
> possible, i.e., augment existing segments with a new option, but  
> neither
> generate nor consume new segments.

That's my recollection as well, and hopefully it's in the minutes of  
the WG meeting where we adopted the work item. The idea was to be as  
lightweight (in terms of changes to TCP) as possible, and changes to  
the state machine, etc. seem rather heavyweight.

Lars
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