On Monday 07 December 2009 11:59:51 pm Steven Bellovin wrote:
> On Dec 7, 2009, at 5:26 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> > On Monday 07 December 2009 05:16:26 pm Stephen Kent wrote:
> >> Paul,
> >>
> >> From your comments it seems as though an IP option would be
> >> preferable, as it is not IP-sec-specific, and it an be protected if
> >> needed, in the IPSec context, e.g., via tunneling.
> >
> > Exactly.  Since the option would be immutable it could also be protected
> > with AH allowing for intermediate nodes to apply security policy based on
> > the label.
> 
> Not really, because the the intermediate nodes probably don't have the key
>  necessary to verify the label.

Yes, my mistake.  While the security label would be visible to intermediate 
nodes they would have no way to verify the integrity of the label.

-- 
paul moore
linux @ hp
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