On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:08:04PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> Disabling TCP MD5 is not likely to be something apps want to do.  TCP
> MD5 is of limited use and applicability, so apps will generally want to
> enable, rather than disable it, and there will/should be few such apps.
> 
> (Let's not get into why TCP MD5 is of limited use and applicability.)

Hmmm, perhaps one might argue that providing APIs would encourage the
use of TCP MD5 while we might want to do the opposite (i.e., discourage
it).  I'll think about this.
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