Slashdot: John Gilmore Analyzes NSA Obstruction of Crypto In IPSEC

[James Knott]

William Muriithi wrote:
> But from reading around,  it looks like their biggest win was making
> sure ipsec was not part ipv6.

My understanding was that IPSec was designed to be used with IPv6, but
not required.  It was then adapted to IPv4.  Making IPSec a required
part would really cause issues with accessing public sites in the manner
we normally do.  It's also more suitable for setting up static links
than using it on an ad hoc basis to access web servers.  SSL/TLS is much
better in that regard.


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