From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pawel Foremski Subject: Re: [RFC] Ethernet Cheap Cryptography Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 17:33:43 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200610151820.22867.dpc@asn.pl> <17717.40394.531846.695392@localhost.localdomain> <200610181115.12471.dpc@asn.pl> <17718.63424.509719.492216@localhost.localdomain> <17720.12801.843076.819750@localhost.localdomain> <17721.32425.591879.97484@localhost.localdomain> <20061020192826.7ed05816@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:5592 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2993091AbWJUPeC (ORCPT ); Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:34:02 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GbIrB-0001Vz-Lx for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 17:33:53 +0200 Received: from demiurg.asn.pl ([85.14.84.18]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 17:33:53 +0200 Received: from pjf by demiurg.asn.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 2006 17:33:53 +0200 To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Ethernet encrypted bridging is old stuff: > http://kerneltrap.org/node/167 > http://www.arnor.net/encryptingbridge/ > > It never got accepted, mostly for the same reasons this proposal > is a dead end. >>From what I can see in the brief description is that ccrypt is more general as it is not limited to ethernet bridging code, UDP and AES. Unfortunately I cannot find any replies to the announcement you've mentioned and thus I am and was not aware of the objections to the encrypted bridging idea. I knew the encrypted bridging project before starting to think about ccrypt, BTW. -- Pawel Foremski pjf@asn.pl