Re: CIPE - Encrypted IP Encapsulation

Mike A. Harris (mharris@ican.net)
Mon, 3 Aug 1998 04:06:28 -0400 (EDT)

On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Max Inux wrote:

> I was looking around at different IP Tunneling and encapsulation utilities
> when I stumbled accrosed CIPE, semi-stagnant at 0.5.6 for 4+ months, I
> decided to mess with it along with two friends a mine, one in New York,
> one in England. First step we actually got it work.. looks pretty neat,
> (used as a module). Anyways, Onto the question.
>
> Are there any plans for a CIPE-like networking option in the kernel? or
> just addons like this? Or wold it be possible just to merge the CIPE tree
> into the kernel (it appears ready for it to be inserted into the
> kernel..).
>
> For those interested CIPE can be found at
> sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/cipe.html

I believe IPv6 has an encryption mechanism built in. Chances are
we'll all be running IPv6 before too much longer...

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