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RE: possible customer for a Forth box?
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg Bailey [SMTP:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 09, 1998 9:23 PM
> > To: '[email protected]'
> > Cc: 'ATHENA Tech'; 'ark-gvb'
> > Subject: RE: possible customer for a Forth box?
> >
> > On Thu, 9 Apr 1998 15:12:17 -0700, Stuart Johnson
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > i'm currently looking for a box or chipset that will encryption
> > > ethernet traffic at or near wire speed. does anyone know of such a
> > > thing? anyhelp will be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > We might be able to help, but the above is not a complete problem
> > statement. It could be read as use of Ether for a point to point
> > connection between two machines with all traffic encrypted, which
> > is a nice and simple key management problem. Or it might mean
> > two or more boxes plugged into an Ethernet with only traffic
> > between these pairs of boxes encrypted. This is a much harder
> > key management problem and also is full of special cases such as
> > some protocols (ARP for example) that must never be encrypted.
> >
> thanks all for the quick replies, for my needs a point to point
> connection is fine.
>
> i've looked at a few things out there (netfortress, some bay routers)
> but they are all very slow, i'm looking for a wire speed
> implementation
> (100-1000Mb/s) is there anything out there in this arena? or do i have
> to make my own <g>. if i were to embark on building my own is there
> any
> body of work out there that would help me get a jump start? i have the
> LAN protocol knowledge but my crypto knowledge is limited to what i've
> read in Schneier.
>
Have you checked out RadGuard's cIPRO? It claims throughput of 100 Mbps
and is IPSec-compliant, although I don't know which specific algorithms
it supports.
Mick Bauer
Network Engineer, EXi Corp.