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From: Nils Ketelsen (no email)
Date: Tue Jan 04 2005 - 09:44:01 EST
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 05:32:24PM +0000, Sam Stickland wrote:
> Since IPSEC is an integral part of IPv6 won't this have an affect on the
> deep packet inspection firewalls? Is this type of inspection expected to
> work in IPv6?
Well it will work as good as the Virus-Scanning on Firewalls,
when you use a SSL website.
> Perhaps using some kind of NAP the firewall is allowed to speak on behalf
> of the host(s) it firewalls, so that to the client it appears to be the
> firewall itself appears to be the IPSEC endpoint?
If the IPSEC implementation allows that it
is seriously broken. You are proposing the firewall to run a man
in the middle attack.
Nils
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