August 2000
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
21h 5m
English
Content preview from Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Security Handbook
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Summary
Note
If you didn't get enough of the detail behind the IPSec protocol, feel free to check out RFC 2401. There you can read even more detailed descriptions of the IPSec protocol, such as the following:
"A tunnel mode SA is essentially an SA applied to an IP tunnel."
Okay, that probably wasn't a great choice for demonstrating the detail in the RFC, but it is one of my favorite lines from the RFC.
To recap what I have discussed in the chapter, the IPSec protocol provides a high level of security by using cryptography-based mechanisms to secure proprietary data traversing a public network such as the Internet. Encryption enables information to be transmitted securely by hashing (which ensures data integrity) and/or encrypting (providing ...