On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 07:49:46AM +0800, Kacheong Poon wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > Moreover, as we discussed in various hallway conversations,
> > it's a little odd to configure ipsec policy in one way (using
> > ipsecconf) and to configure md5 in another (via on/off switches). 
> 
> 
> I guess to some people, it is rather odd to configure something
> totally not related to IPsec using ipsecconf...  If it is
> something like a system level security configuration command,
> I guess it is better...  But then this command will probably
> need to handle every security features in the system to be
> consistent, even at app level security, such as SSL.  I guess
> there are just too many odd things in the world ;-)

:)

Point taken.  Well, I'll be at the kmart BoF at IETF tomorrow, so we'll
see what is going on with TCP-AO and how that affects the design for
TCP-MD5, if at all.

I'm not sure that I want a single CLI tool to configure every security
sub-system of the OS.  In fact, I know I don't.

Nico
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