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Re: link-layer encryptors for Ethernet?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (james hughes)
Wed Feb 9 10:09:16 2005

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From: james hughes <hughejp@mac.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:28:36 -0500
To: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>

The following device is a layer 2 tunneling device that has 256 bit AES 
at up to 400Mb/s.

http://blueridgenetworks.com/products/index.htm
http://blueridgenetworks.com/support/borderguard_vpn__serv_res_ctr.htm

Hope this helps


On Feb 8, 2005, at 11:29 AM, Russell Nelson wrote:

> Steven M. Bellovin writes:
>> 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)?
>
> Given the price of gigE, it's hard to say that a 100Mbps adapter is
> "current", but Intel has one with 3DES.  I recently went through my
> collection and threw out about a hundred antique (ISA / MCA) Ethernet
> cards, but I kept all the PCI ones.  With sufficient inducement I
> could go grovelling through the Intel ones to get you a part number.
>
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