IPSec Simplified

24 Aug 2004

I am again spending some time figuring out the workings of IPSec, this time I was interested in how to get it all going on PIX machines. While looking for information I came across 2 great articles about IPSec. They provide a simple introduction and were written by Dr. Peter J. Welcher.

IPsec phobia is caused by confusion. To cure that, we need some background information and terminology. Believe me, with a little orientation, this stuff makes a whole lot more sense! By the way, there's lots of mathematics theory behind all this, but you won't see it here. After all, you don't need to know any of that to use IPsec.

It is split across 2 articles: IPSec Simplified and IPSec Simplified - Part 2.

The authors site has a large number of security and network related articles that seem of a very high quality and well worth checking out.

Posted by R.I.Pienaar on Tuesday, August 24, 2004 at 5:07 PM

Filed in

Leave a comment

Recent Entries

  • flashpolicyd 2.0

    I wrote a multi threaded server for Adobe Flash Policy requests, some background from Adobe:Since policy files were first introduced, Flash Player has recognized /crossdomain.xml...

  • Adventures with Ruby

    Some more about my continuing experiences with ruby, in my last post I saidthe language does what you'd expect and as you'll see in my...

  • New programming language of choice - Ruby

    I have fallen out of love with Perl some time ago, I cannot point to one specific thing about it that put me off, I...

  • On working from home

    I've not been posting much here, work has been incredibly manic the last while, especially I need to still finish off my SSO posts with...

  • Rework of puppet facts for /etc/facts.txt

    Previously I blogged a custom fact that reads /etc/facts.txt to build up some custom facts for use in Puppet manifests, well I've since learned a...

Close