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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Wednesday, July 20, 2005 12:15:13 am | 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.
[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.
Specified in [ RFC 2402 | http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2402.txt ].
