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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.

Specified in RFC 2402.