On Apr 3, 2014, at 1:13 AM, Paul Wouters <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Apr 2014, RJ Atkinson wrote:
> 
>>> The IPsec community generally prefers ESP with NULL encryption over AH.
>>> AH is still required in some protocols and operational environments
>>> when there are security-sensitive options in the IP header, such as
>>> source routing headers.
>> 
>> This does not make clear that ESP can't protect the IP options,
>> which is an important-to-document limitation of ESP.
> 
> In my 15 years of IPsec work, I've hardly seen requests for AH. When our
> KLIPS stack per default disabled AH support in the kernel module, no one
> complained.

FWIW nobody complained when we removed AH from our firewall in 2003, but our 
product uses IPsec only for VPN.

I’m also with Paul on this.

Yoav

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