[14469] in Cypherpunks
Re: encrypted IP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue May 31 08:57:01 1994
To: Jim Hart <hart@chaos.bsu.edu>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 May 1994 20:02:27."
<199405310102.UAA15186@chaos.bsu.edu>
Reply-To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 08:53:44 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Jim Hart says:
>
> Does anybody have an update on the crypto IP efforts?
swIPe, which is a proposed network layer security protocol for the
internet, may be read about in documents available from
ftp://research.att.com/dist/mab/
A swIPe implementation should be available to the public very soon.
Various work is being conducted to produce a security infrastructure
for IPng.
> I've heard there are several commercial products, including weakened
> U.S. DES versions from Semaphore Technologies, Motorola, Hughes, and
> UUNET technologies.
These aren't actually general secure IP implementations -- they are
usually more ad hoc than that.
Perry
