17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Phil Karn says:
These are all advantages of IP-level encryption over doing it above TCP. The main disadvantage is overhead -- Van Jacobsen TCP/IP header compression breaks.
Of course, one could simply compress the encapsulated packets -- after all, in some sense any pair of hosts running swIPe between them have produced an odd sort of point to point link between them. Perry