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-!
Authentication Header
+An [Acronym] for
Authentication Header
-Used in
[IPSec] communications to authenticate data passing through a tunnel. It 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
.
+An Authentication Header is part of the
[IPSec] protocol
.
-Specified in
[ RFC 2402 |
http://www.ietf
.org/rfc
/rfc2402
.txt ]
.
+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.
+
+----
+!See Also
+
+*
http://www.freeswan
.org/freeswan_trees
/freeswan-1
.99/doc/ipsec
.html#AH.ipsec.
+* RFC:2042
