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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] remove IPV6_AUTHHDR socket option / ancillary data
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 12:58:18 -0800
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On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 14:11:17 +0900 (JST)
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> wrote:

> AH is now handled by the XFRM engine.
> IPV6_AUTHHDR socket option / ancillary data are deprecated.
> 
> For sender side, it is very difficult (or even almost impossible) to
> create "correct" AH in userspace.
> For receiver side, none set opt->auth and user space application
> never get authentication data.
> 
> IPV6_AUTHHDR is very Linux-specific and applications which use
> these feature are not portable at all.

I totally agree, I didn't even know this broken thing existed
to be honest.

Let's kill this now.

Patch applied, thanks Yoshfuji.