On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 03:37:50PM -0700, Steve Ramage wrote: > Stupid Question, I don't understand how IPSec is secure. Can't you just > kill the IPSec connection, or is IPSec connectionless? As I understand > it you have [TCP HEADER | TCP DATA ] in a TCP Packet. With Ipsec you > have [ TCP Header | encrypted([TCP HEADER | TCP DATA]) ] that you could > still kill. IPSEC doesn't use TCP. IPSEC for IPv4 is an IP protocol, just like TCP and UDP. So, no. For IPv6, it's even better, the IPSEC headers are included in the IP ones. -- George Cristian Birzan gcbirzan (at) wolfheart (dot) ro No discipline is ever requisite to force attendance upon lectures which are really worth the attending. -- Adam Smith, "The Wealth of Nations"
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