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RFC 4303, "IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)", December 2005

Source of RFC: ipsec (sec)
See Also: RFC 4303 w/ inline errata

Errata ID: 4799
Status: Verified
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT

Reported By: Antonios Atlasis
Date Reported: 2016-09-09
Verifier Name: Paul Wouters
Date Verified: 2022-04-11

Section 2.6 says:

   To facilitate the rapid generation and discarding of the padding
   traffic in support of traffic flow confidentiality (see Section 2.4),
   the protocol value 59 (which means "no next header") MUST be used to
   designate a "dummy" packet.

It should say:

   To facilitate the rapid generation and discarding of the padding
   traffic in support of traffic flow confidentiality (see Section 2.7),
   the protocol value 59 (which means "no next header") MUST be used to
   designate a "dummy" packet.

Notes:

Section 2.4 refers to padding for Encryption. It is section 2.7 which refers to Traffic Flow Confidentiality (TFC) Padding.

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