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Subject: Re: Linux iSCSI Initiator, OpenSource (fwd) (Re: Gauntlet Set NOW!)
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On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 12:31, Andrew McGregor wrote:
> Or ESP, with or without encryption as well.
> 
> But that does not acheive quite the same thing, because the iSCSI digest is 
> another lightweight checksum, albeit stronger than most, and does not 
> provide authentication.  So AH or ESP is stronger, but slower.

AH permits multiple digests, they also happen to correspond to the hardware
accelerated ones on things like the 3c990...

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