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Re: link-layer encryptors for Ethernet?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Kuethe)
Mon Feb 7 23:36:20 2005

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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:59:08 -0700
From: Chris Kuethe <chris.kuethe@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Chris Kuethe <chris.kuethe@gmail.com>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>,
	cryptography@metzdowd.com
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http://www.google.com/search?q=ethernet+link+encryptor
says that there are. There's even a widget that supposedly runs up to
gigabit. http://www.atmedia.de/english/news.html

I'm enough of a freenix zealot though that I'd build one out of a
couple of opteron boxen with gig ether cards and run ether over ipsec
or something like that.

CK


On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 15:11:41 -0500, Steven M. Bellovin
<smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
> Are there any commercial link-layer encryptors for Ethernet available?
> I know that Xerox used to make them, way back when, but are there any
> current ones, able to deal with current speeds (and connectors)?
> 
>                 --Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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