Re: AH is pretty useless and perhaps should be deprecated

[Luca Tosolini <bit.gossip () chello nl>]

Junos VRRP with md5 authentication does.....

On Sat, 2009-11-14 at 07:57 +0530, Jack Kohn wrote:
> So who uses AH and why?
>
> Jack
>
> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
> > I've never seen anyone use AH vs. ESP.  I've always used ESP and so has
> > every other IPSEC implementation I've seen anyone do.
> >
> > Owen
> >
> > On Nov 13, 2009, at 4:22 PM, Jack Kohn wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Interesting discussion on the utility of Authentication Header (AH) in
> > > IPSecME WG.
> > >
> > > http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ipsec/current/msg05026.html
> > >
> > > Post explaining that AH even though protecting the source and
> > > destination IP addresses is really not good enough.
> > >
> > > http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ipsec/current/msg05056.html
> > >
> > > What do folks feel? Do they see themselves using AH in the future?
> > > IMO, ESP and WESP are good enough and we dont need to support AH any
> > > more ..
> > >
> > > Jack