Folks:
OK, ok, so this isn't *exactly* a firewall question,
but it is closely related! I understand most encryption
algorithms that IPsec and protocols use, but I have a very
specific question that I can't quite find in any
article/book
that I've purused on the subject....
If you look at any given packet's payload and you have
the proper keys, can you decipher the payload of this
specific
packet...or do you need some other portion of the encrypted
stream? That is, can I decrypt on the fly on a
packet-by-packet
basis or do I need to keep track of the session and
accumulate
some portion (or all) of the application data before
decrypting?
(I'm talking here about Ethernet packets, but I guess that
doesn't
really matter).
Robert
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