From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
To: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1994-06-17 19:16:37 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 17 Jun 94 12:16:37 PDT
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 94 12:16:37 PDT
To: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: swipe working on infinity.c2.org
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Phil Karn says:
> These are all advantages of IP-level encryption over doing it above
> TCP. The main disadvantage is overhead -- Van Jacobsen TCP/IP header
> compression breaks.
Of course, one could simply compress the encapsulated packets -- after
all, in some sense any pair of hosts running swIPe between them have
produced an odd sort of point to point link between them.
Perry
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