[aclug-L] Re: Encrypted/compresed network traffic

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It'd be easier to use something intended for full network tunneling, such as
IPSec or VTun.  But my goal was to find something that didn't require a
point-to-point connection for security.  I suspect that nothing like that
exists.

-- Jonathan


On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 11:45:04PM -0600, John Alexander wrote:
> Well, there is a company that is building compression engines that replace
> data segments that get repeated with variable tags, but you'd have to get
> three of them to sit at the intersections of all the machines. Or, you could
> just ssh -C, and funnel everything over the ports.
> 
> ja
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> 
> Here's a real general question that may have a rather complex answer.
> 
> Given an ethernet segment containing three 3 Linux machines, is there any
> way to encrypt (and possibly compress) all traffic sent to the ethernet
> segment, aside from building tunnels between all 3 machines?
> 
> Thanks for any input anyone may have :)
> 
> -- Jonathan
> 
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