Re: RFC2385 (MD5 signature in TCP packets) support

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 16 Mar 2002 00:14:12 +0000 (GMT)


> One factor that would go into that decision is whether the
> patch would have a chance at being accepted into the kernel
>
> Hmmm... ignoring whether rfc2385 is stupid or not, don't
> we have crypto issues if we put something using MD5 into the tree?

MD5 is authentication not encryption. We already use it extensively.

Alan

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