[e2e] How TCP might look with always there ESP
Craig Partridge
craig at aland.bbn.com
Tue Jul 17 10:50:36 PDT 2001
In message <5.1.0.14.2.20010717091427.02495ea0 at localhost>, Robert Moskowitz wri
tes:
>First we would drop the CRC checksum. All of the ESP auth methods are much
>stronger.
Addendum to my last note (kudos to Hilarie here). Because all the ESP
auth methods have far more bits in their sum, they're (but for certain
presumably rare cases) stronger than the 16 bit TCP checksum.
Craig
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