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An [Acronym] for Authentication Header
-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
.
+An Authentication Header is part of the [IPSec
] protocol.
-Authentication Header is specified in
RFC:2042
+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
