AH is pretty useless and perhaps should be deprecated

Jack Kohn kohn.jack at gmail.com
Sat Nov 14 02:27:25 UTC 2009


So who uses AH and why?

Jack

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
> I've never seen anyone use AH vs. ESP.  I've always used ESP and so has
> every other IPSEC implementation I've seen anyone do.
>
> Owen
>
> On Nov 13, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Jack Kohn wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Interesting discussion on the utility of Authentication Header (AH) in
>> IPSecME WG.
>>
>> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ipsec/current/msg05026.html
>>
>> Post explaining that AH even though protecting the source and
>> destination IP addresses is really not good enough.
>>
>> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ipsec/current/msg05056.html
>>
>> What do folks feel? Do they see themselves using AH in the future?
>> IMO, ESP and WESP are good enough and we dont need to support AH any
>> more ..
>>
>> Jack
>
>




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