Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Oct 1996 10:24:32 GMT | From | Pedro Roque <> | Subject | Re: unusual startup messages |
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>>>>> "David" == David S Miller <davem@caip.rutgers.edu> writes:
David> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 21:01:48 -0500 (EST) From: ADAM David> Sulmicki <adam@cfar.umd.edu>
David> I don't think Linus is in favour this this. As IMHO this David> can be entirely done in user space, and we don't need an David> big, bloated kernel. But even we do it, what would be use David> of it? There is already suppport for encrypted volumes, the David> secure rcp/telnet/ etc are alredy done by ssh stuff, and we David> are not going to crypt memory ;)
David> Yes, but isn't some form of crypt in the kernel necessary David> for a full ipv6 implementation?
Yes. Presently DES is mandatory for one to be able to claim conformance to IPsec which is needed in order to claim conformance with IPv6.
./Pedro.
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