From owner-freebsd-security Mon Sep 6 21:50:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from valiant.cis.hcc.cc.il.us (valiant.cis.hcc.cc.il.us [4.17.214.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D9C014CA3 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 21:50:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bryan@valiant.cis.hcc.cc.il.us) Received: from localhost (bryan@localhost) by valiant.cis.hcc.cc.il.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA10645; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 23:51:10 -0500 Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 23:51:10 -0500 (CDT) From: "Bryan Smith (Administrator)" To: dmp@aracnet.com Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Layer 2 ethernet encryption? In-Reply-To: <37D496A5.A0576E0F@aracnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org where would you implement this on the system? I just use SSH. Bryan Smith The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own rediness to receive him, not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable. -- Sun-Tzu The Art of Warfare On Mon, 6 Sep 1999 dmp@aracnet.com wrote: > My apologies if this shouldn't be posted to this group, but I didn't > know of any other place where an open discussion among "friends" > could take place. If I should take this elsewhere, just let me know. > > Is it possible to encrypt ethernet packets so that all layers above > layer 2 would be encrypted? The idea I had was to make a device that > could defeat a TCP sniffer by encrypting the IP headers. Is this > doable? Viable? A reinvention of the wheel? > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message