RE: RE:Pre-draft: SEAL as an IPv6 extension header(was:Fragmentation-related Security issues) (Templin, Fred L)

2012-01-13 Thread Templin, Fred L
: Sreenatha setty; fltemp...@acm.org Cc: ipv6@ietf.org Subject: RE: RE:Pre-draft: SEAL as an IPv6 extension header(was:Fragmentation-related Security issues) (Templin, Fred L) Hi Sreenatha, You are right that the draft needs to be clarified on this point. The answer is that whether or not there

RE: RE:Pre-draft: SEAL as an IPv6 extension header(was:Fragmentation-related Security issues) (Templin, Fred L)

2012-01-13 Thread Templin, Fred L
Hi Sreenatha, You are right that the draft needs to be clarified on this point. The answer is that whether or not there is a shared secret key the destination node can validate or not validate the signature as it deems fit. If the destination willl not validate the signature, then it simply ignore