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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Fixing SA/SP dumps on netlink/af_key
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=46rom: Timo_Ter=E4s <timo.teras@iki.fi>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:38:15 +0200

> David Miller wrote:
> > From: Timo_Ter=E4s <timo.teras@iki.fi>
> > Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 08:27:14 +0200
> >=20
> >> I don't know about netlink. But pfkey works in *BSD too and it is =
RFC'd.
> >> So I'd say pfkey might be a bit more portable. Though netlink is d=
efinitely
> >> more robust and extensive.
> >=20
> > The RFCs say absolutely nothing about policy interfaces for AF_KEY,
> > everybody rolls their own in slightly incompatible ways.
> >=20
> > It is therefore anything but standardized.
>=20
> Yes, there's non-standardized extensions.

You can't implement a keying daemon without policy support, and policy
support is where the "non-standardized extensions" live.

Doing anything other than "life support" bug fixes for AF_KEY is
inappropriate.