New ZeroConf Spec

Dick Davies rasputnik at gmail.com
Mon Jul 24 19:39:58 BST 2006


On 22/07/06, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> On 7/22/06, Andrew Jorgensen <andrew.jorgensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Exactly my point: Avahi over SSL with some keys-based security layer
> > > would make me feel a lot more comfortable.
> > ...
> > Some kind of shared key might be nice if you wanted a little extra
> > security but when you start talking about that you're really talking
> > about redesigning mDNS so that it's something other than what it is.
>
> Not if you use IPSec to do the security.

Isn't this a bit counter to the 'zero configuration' part?

What does that gain you that WPA wouldn't anyway?

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