>>>>> "ss" == ss murthy nittala <ssmurthy.nitt...@freescale.com> writes:
ss> The following sentence present in RFC 3602 creates some doubts ss> whether IV in each packet is mandatory or not? ss> "Including the IV in each datagram ensures that decryption of ss> each received datagram can be performed, even when some datagrams ss> are dropped, or datagrams are re-ordered in transit." It's mandatory. The paragraph you quoted is simply an explanation of why this is so. Note the first paragraph of that section, which says "the ESP payload is made up of the IV followed...". There isn't any option in that statement. paul _______________________________________________ IPsec mailing list IPsec@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipsec