Subject: ipsec for privacy with random hosts
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang+gnus20011014T130324@wsrcc.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/14/2001 13:16:24
Can netbsd's ipsec along with isakmpd or racoon be used for privacy
with random remote hosts?  Older user-land protocols like ssh will
allow two hosts that have never communicated and have no shared
secrets to establish a secure connection.  (Well, with the one proviso
that one can't really guard against a man-in-the-middle attack.)  Can
netbsd's ipsec be setup in a similar fashion?  It would be really nice
if all incoming and outgoing IP connections would go via some secured
method and only fall back to non-ipsec methods if the other side
declined the isakmp negotiations.  Is this possible?

-wolfgang
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