Using shared secret with PGPNet ???

[Carson Gaspar]

--On Wednesday, June 13, 2001 12:41 PM -0700 Will Price 
<wprice at cyphers.net> wrote:

> One does not "use shared secret instead of IKE".  One uses IKE to
> setup the shared secret connection. There is no way to securely use
> IPsec without a control protocol like IKE.

Oh really? How strange - folks were using swIPe and IPSEC long before IKE, 
and shared secret worked just fine (assuming you securely shared the 
secret, and I know swIPe had some issues with insertion attacks). IKE is an 
abysmal protocol designed by committee, and it shows.

-- 
Carson




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