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Subject: Re: Layer 2 ethernet encryption?
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Javier Henderson 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?
> 
>         DEC used to have something called DESNC. I've no idea
> if it exists or not still, but it does (did) what you want.

Do you have the part/model names/numbers by any chance?


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