Re: IP tunneling and encryption?

really kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru (inr-linux-kernel@ms2.inr.ac.ru)
4 May 1996 14:59:43 +0400


Cees de Groot (C.DEGroot@inter.NL.NET) wrote:

: I'm contemplating playing around with IP tunneling, but I'm missing a _very_
: obvious thing: some encryption hooks (like those in the loop blockdev). I
: think this is so obvious, that somebody must have implemented it already;
: otherwise - would it be hard to do? AFAIK, one would just add an extra option
: to the setup, and hook an encryption/decryption call to the points in the code
: where the original data is copied to/from the new socket buffer. Are there any
: more issues here?

We need complete IP-AH + IP-ESP, rather than hooks/hacks
(Linux has more than enough of them 8)8))

I do not know, whether someone is making it.

Alexey Kuznetsov.