Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 07 Sep 1999 09:41:21 +0400 (MSD)
From:      "Sergey S. Kosyakov" <ks@itp.ac.ru>
To:        dmp@aracnet.com
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Layer 2 ethernet encryption?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990907094121.ks@osi.ru>
In-Reply-To: <37D496A5.A0576E0F@aracnet.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help


On 07-Sep-99 dmp@aracnet.com wrote:
> 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?
> 

You can establish secure tunnel with TUND - over tun(4) pseudo-devices if you
use routing, or over divert(4) sockets with ipfw(8) rules for LAN.

---
----------------------------------
E-Mail: Sergey S. Kosyakov <ks@osi.ru>
Date: 07-Sep-99
Time: 09:39:12
----------------------------------


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?XFMail.990907094121.ks>