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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 4 Last edited on Wednesday, July 20, 2005 12:17:31 am by MattBrown Revert
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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.  
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+----  
+!See Also  
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+* http://www.freeswan.org/freeswan_trees/freeswan-1.99/doc/ipsec.html#AH.ipsec.  
+* RFC:2042