Re: RFC2385 (MD5 signature in TCP packets) support

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Mar 15 2002 - 19:14:12 EST


> One factor that would go into that decision is whether the
> patch would have a chance at being accepted into the kernel
>
> Hmmm... ignoring whether rfc2385 is stupid or not, don't
> we have crypto issues if we put something using MD5 into the tree?

MD5 is authentication not encryption. We already use it extensively.

Alan

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