Re: linux-ipsec: AH-HMAC-SHA1-96 working, is back compat necessary?

> knowing angelos, it's probably accident and laziness.

;-)

> it would be Kind And Gentle to support the older transforms. The Older,

Agreed.

> Now, if you want to attitude-problem-compliant you should refuse to support

I can be pretty stubborn often on principle, but this is not one of those occasions.

> You choose.

I would tend to agree.

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Since I haven't added the switching logic yet, the old stuff is temporarily absent, but could be re-added when the switching gets updated.

> >The OpenBSD IPSEC implementation provides compatibility with the older
> >set of ipsec specs (I assume RFC182[5-9]). Is this out of convenience,
> >necessity, or courtesy?
> >
> >How useful/necessary is it for KLIPS to provide backwards compatibility
> >with that set of standards?
> >
> > Slainte Mhath, rgb
>
> -- Rodney Thayer <rodney@sabletech.com>

        Slainte Mhath, rgb Received on Thu Apr 9 00:11:29 1998