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Newer page: version 5 Last edited on Wednesday, July 20, 2005 2:04:09 pm by MattBrown Revert
Older page: version 2 Last edited on Thursday, April 24, 2003 4:11:43 am by JeeKay Revert
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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