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SubjectRe: RFC2385 (MD5 signature in TCP packets) support
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 10:57:11PM +0000, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> There is no reason to not be doing this MD5 garbage in
> userspace. Whoever thought to do this in the protocol
> itself was smoking something.

I did a lot of this using an iptables module. Iptables lends itself very
well to these kind of things. Toy code at http://ds9a.nl/sps/

> Maybe I'm missing something, but I see no reason this MD5
> stuff belongs in the protocol and not in the APP.

Some of the idea is cool. You can give a host a 'key' and tell your packet
filter to have it pass packets signed with that key. This way you can grant
or disable access on a very low level without depending on IP addresses,
which can be spoofed.

Regards,

bert

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