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Subject: IPsec vs. App-level
From: Sebastien Boving <Sebastien . Boving @ esat . kuleuven . ac . be>
Organization: K.U.Leuven
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 20:27:48 METDST
To: firewalls @ greatcircle . com

Hi *,

I have some questions:

- Is there a site somewhere where i can find statistics about attacks on the net?
- What are the main drawbacks of implementing encryption and authentication in
the network layer, like IPv6? The data would cross the other layers in clear,
but so what? Root can read data at the app-level too. Will the network overhead
be larger than for app-level encryption and authentication? I just don't 
understand why some people prefer app-level encryption systems, like SSL or
Kerberos.
- For those who have heard about it, what do you think of SESAMEv4?

TIA,
Sebastien.

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Sebastien Boving                              Departement van Elektrotechniek
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B-3000 Leuven.                                 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Tel.: +32-16.23.55.93, +32-16.23.77.64                                Belgium
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