link-layer encryptors for Ethernet?
Anne & Lynn Wheeler
lynn at garlic.com
Wed Feb 9 11:27:26 EST 2005
the internal network was larger than the arpanet/internet just about the
whole time up until about mid-85. all the links leaving physical premise
had to be encrypted ... there was the claim that over half of all
encrypters in the world were on the internal network (and put at least
one of the major products/companies into business). lots of random
comments about about the internal network
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#internalnet
small sample posting about the internal net passing 1000 nodes not long
after internet passed 255 nodes.
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/internet.htm#22
one of the big issues in part of this period was getting encrypters on
links that cross national boundaries.
Joseph Tardo wrote:
> DEC used to make one (the DESNC), I don't remember the Xerox product.
> Cylink used to make one, and may even still (as Safe-Net).
>
> FWIW, IEEE has working group 802.1ae doing Ethernet MAC layer
> encryption. But then, they had 802.10 (only implementation I know of was
> the DESNC) for many years before retiring it.
>
> The market for these kinds of devices has been notoriously small. May I
> ask what your use case is?
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