- From: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
- Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 14:24:19 -0700
- To: discuss@apps.ietf.org
At 6:01 PM -0400 5/6/01, Keith Moore wrote: >I basically think that IPsec is nearly useless without an application-layer >API, Creating secure WANs is a pretty large market... > but the API needs to not only make applications aware of whether >a security association has been established (along with the credentials >so that the application can evaluate them for itself) Right > but also allow >the application to control the credentials that are used when establishing >SAs. That's assuming that the API allows SA creation. I think that is a separate API from "am I already covered", and one tha will be much harder to design. --Paul Hoffman, Director --Internet Mail Consortium
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