[e2e] How TCP might look with always there ESP

Hilarie Orman HORMAN at volera.com
Tue Jul 17 12:42:59 PDT 2001


There is no ESP digest with such a tiny blocksize!

Hilarie

>>> Craig Partridge <craig at aland.bbn.com> 07/17/01 12:58PM >>>

In message <NEBBJGDMMLHHCIKHGBEJAEKACJAA.dotis at sanlight.net>, "Douglas Otis" wr
ites:

>For which cases would ESP digests appear weaker than a 16 bit TCP checksum?

If they had the same number of bits, then we'd have to evaluate the two
over particular error models to determine which is stronger.

Craig




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