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| Newer page: | version 6 | Last edited on Saturday, July 23, 2005 12:25:45 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
| Older page: | version 5 | Last edited on Wednesday, July 20, 2005 2:04:09 pm | by MattBrown | Revert |
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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
.
+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
.
-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.
-
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-
+! See Also:
* http://www.freeswan.org/freeswan_trees/freeswan-1.99/doc/ipsec.html#AH.ipsec.
* RFC:2042
