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Date:      Tue, 7 Sep 1999 12:41:01 -0700 
From:      =?utf-8?B?Tmlrb2xhdXMgU3BlbmNl?= <n.spence@geac.com>
To:        =?utf-8?B?J2RtcEBhcmFjbmV0LmNvbSc=?= <dmp@aracnet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   =?utf-8?B?UkU6IExheWVyIDIgZXRoZXJuZXQgZW5jcnlwdGlvbj8=?=
Message-ID:  <85D42D7EE2DAD2119CD400A0C9E1004F64F69A@exchange.eci.us.geac.com>

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If you aren't using IP based routing then aren't your packets going to be
encapsulated already?  how ARE you routing your packets???

Nikolaus

-----Original Message-----
From: dmp@aracnet.com [mailto:dmp@aracnet.com]
Sent: Monday, September 06, 1999 11:06 PM
To: Gary Palmer
Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Layer 2 ethernet encryption?


Gary Palmer wrote:
> 
> dmp@aracnet.com wrote in message ID
> <37D496A5.A0576E0F@aracnet.com>:
> > Is it possible to encrypt ethernet packets so that all layers above
> > layer 2 would be encrypted?  The idea I had was to make a device that
> > could defeat a TCP sniffer by encrypting the IP headers.  Is this
> > doable?  Viable?  A reinvention of the wheel?
> 
> How would you route the traffic?  No routers would be able to pass the
> traffic.

The network in question doesn't use IP-based routing.

> If you are doing this for a local LAN, I suggest you have bigger
> problems :)

You're right, I do have bigger problems.  Like deep paranoia among
the users of the LAN.


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