On 7/29/14 1:58 AM, "Christian Huitema" <huit...@huitema.net> wrote:

>Let look at TCP + crypto. It has to compete with two established
>standards.
>On one hand, TLS, which is easily deployed but does not protect any of the
>TCP headers. On the other hand, IPSEC, which is harder to deploy but does
>protect the TCP header. A secure version of TCP only makes sense if it
>protects the headers better than TLS and is easier to deploy than IPSEC.

I don't think TLS is so easy to deploy.  TCP is used in a wide variety of
environments; that's one of its attractions.  One of the attractions of
TCPcrypt is its aim to be deployable wherever TCP can be, which is a bigger
space than where TLS is convenient.  That's my hope for the WG.

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