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To: Yomama who wrote (78)	9/17/1998 5:41:00 PM
From: Enam Luf	Respond to of 206

Yomama, Welcome to our discussion, that was some good stuff! I can't say I have much to add at this point, though I am doing some work on the topic currently and may have some further info in the future. As for your point on routing capabilities. I believe that the industry is in the process of building such a device. Hardware/Software hybrid solutions will probably play a large part in this market.... Any of the points of convergence for network traffic (access concentrators, routers, servers) will likely use some form of hardwired encryption (for performance and security reasons), either encryption accelerators for Internet based solutions, or link encryptors. In addition, compression may also play into the mix. I believe Cisco, Ascend, and some of the server companies are looking into adding these products to their equipment to enhance VPN capabilities. Enam

To: Yomama who wrote (78)	9/17/1998 9:55:00 PM
From: caly	Respond to of 206

Welcome to the thread Yomama. A couple of things... Many router vendors are hopping into the security arena, and Cisco is leading the way. They've been very involved with IPsec interoperability and have essentially led the way by providing free IPsec reference software for other organizations to develop with. In addition to routers with security, however, you can also have standalone hardware encryptors for this purpose. (For example, an ethernet encryptor sitting on the LAN side of a router.) These boxes are solely there for the purpose of encryption and authentication, and it doesn't matter whether it's a dial-in (many-to-one) or many-to-many configuration. Examples of these types of devices are Red Creek's Ravlin ( redcreek.com ) and IRE's SafeNet/LAN ( ire.com ).