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| Newer page: | version 6 | Last edited on Saturday, July 23, 2005 12:25:45 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | |
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-An [Acronym] for Authentication Header
+An [Acronym] for __A__uthentication __H__eader, a part of the [IPSec] protocol.
-An Authentication Header is part of the [IPsec] protocol. [IPSec] is used to authenticate data passing between two hosts on the Internet.
The Authentication Header provides __only__ authentication - no
encryption. A more detailed analysis is available at http://www.freeswan.org/freeswan_trees/freeswan-1.99/doc/ipsec.html#AH.ipsec
.
+The Authentication Header provides __only__ the
authentication functionality for [IPSec] and can be used seperately from the other parts of [IPSec], such as
encryption. This can lead to a situation where you have an authenticated, but unecrypted [IPSec] connection
.
-Authentication Header is specified in
RFC:2042
+! See Also:
+
+* http://www.freeswan.org/freeswan_trees/freeswan-1.99/doc/ipsec.html#AH.ipsec.
+*
RFC:2042
