Thanks all for the clarification. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 5:28 PM
> To: Hu, Jun (Nokia - US)
> Cc: Paul Wouters; IPsecME WG
> Subject: Re: [IPsec] New version of TCP Encapsulation draft, request for
> adoption
> 
> Hi Jun,
> 
> You are correct—the draft specifically allows for the possibility of doing
> encrypted TLS as a tunnel for the purposes of getting through some
> middleboxes. There are some that will validate that traffic is either HTTP or 
> TLS,
> and since IKE traffic will not look like HTTP, one could use TLS instead.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tommy
> 
> > On May 23, 2016, at 4:42 PM, Hu, Jun (Nokia - US) <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Paul Wouters [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 4:26 PM
> >> To: Hu, Jun (Nokia - US)
> >> Cc: IPsecME WG
> >> Subject: Re: [IPsec] New version of TCP Encapsulation draft, request
> >> for adoption
> >>
> >> On Mon, 23 May 2016, Hu, Jun (Nokia - US) wrote:
> >>
> >>>> To get past middleware boxes that tend to not touch "real" TLS
> >>>> traffic but mangle anything else.
> >>>
> >>> [HJ]  so there is middle box that will only allow TLS traffic (and
> >>> dropping all
> >> plain tcp traffic)? that sounds pretty extreme, but even in such
> >> case, nothing prevent such middle box to have a new rule to drop TLS
> >> encapsulated IPsec traffic if TLS level encryption is not used.
> >>
> >> Correct. There will always be that battle of deep packet inspection
> >> and proxies versus people who want to be protected from them.
> >
> > [HJ] ok, so my takeaway is TLS encapsulation without encryption is useful 
> > for
> HTTP proxy traversal and some middle box only allows TLS traffic; however the
> draft doesn't prevent TLS encapsulation with encryption, which might be useful
> to get around some really strict middle box which inspects TLS payload.
> >
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