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> Detecting it is easy, sure.  But I'm a bit lost on how you propose
> to 
> 'use' it.  The connection is active up until the next rekey
> event.  If 
> rekey offloading is supported, then this might never involve user
> space. 
>   But if it isn't (and I can't get rekey offload to work on any
> recent 
> kernel I tried) then how do you propose userspace obtains the rekey 
> counter, or the various keys used in the connection?
> 
> What about all the other state information?  FT, Pre-Authentication,
> etc?

Well, no, that'd only work with an open connection :)

johannes