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IPsec requires cooperation and setup from both the OS and any middleboxes. TLS typically does not. Putting it another way, TLS is actually usable in arbitrary
by throwaway2048 10y ago
IPsec requires cooperation and setup from both the OS and any middleboxes. TLS typically does not.
Putting it another way, TLS is actually usable in arbitrary applications, IPsec is definitely not.
- snakeanus 10y agoCurrent popular implementations of it. There is nothing technical in IPSec per se stopping it from being implemented as a library, userspace server, or anything like that. In reverse, IPSec is typically usable in arbitrary protocols and applications without special support for it, unlike TLS.
- throwaway2048 10y agoThings could always be different, but thats not a useful discussion when you are concerned about how things are, and working with them.