[e2e] How TCP might look with always there ESP 
    Craig Partridge 
    craig at aland.bbn.com
       
    Tue Jul 17 10:50:36 PDT 2001
    
    
  
In message <5.1.0.14.2.20010717091427.02495ea0 at localhost>, Robert Moskowitz wri
tes:
>First we would drop the CRC checksum.  All of the ESP auth methods are much 
>stronger.
Addendum to my last note (kudos to Hilarie here).  Because all the ESP
auth methods have far more bits in their sum, they're (but for certain
presumably rare cases) stronger than the 16 bit TCP checksum.
Craig
    
    
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