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List:       firewalls-gc
Subject:    Re: swIPe abstract (was Re: raptor encryption)
From:       Geoff Mulligan <geoff () mulligan ! com>
Date:       1997-07-21 12:07:02
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Peter da Silva wrote:
> > > Oh yes. IPsec is really taking off like wildfire, isn't it?
> 
> > Humorous, but care to speculate as to why it isn't wide-spread at this
> > point?
> 
> A freely available good-enough implementation is better than an ideal
> implementation that requires application changes.

And with SKIP you get both.  Some may argue that it's not ideal, but it is 
freely available, EVEN FREE FROM PUBLIC KEY LICENSING!!!! and it is certainly 
good enough and supports multicasting.  Available today for Solaris, BSD, 
Windows, ... and interoperable -- see the S/WAN testing.

	geoff

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