[Info-vax] Still no IPSEC for TCP/IP services?

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 5/21/2012 6:36 PM, Dirk Munk wrote:
> I'm planning to set up a couple of new OpenVMS systems, and I was
> thinking of using IPSEC as well. I was amazed to find that IPSEC is not
> included in the present version of TCP/IP services. It was included in
> the Early Adopters Kit for TCP/IP services 5.7 in 2007 (!!!!), but it
> never made it to the final version and wasn't added later on.
>
> As far as I know IPSEC is a mandatory part of IPv6, so the IPv6 stack of
> TCP/IP services isn't complete either. It may well be that there is more
> modern functionality missing in the IPv6 stack
>
> Does any one know what happened, why was HP not capable of producing a
> full functional IPSEC stack in 5 years time? Even Windows Vista has
> IPSEC........
>

Not capable?  I think you're thinking the wrong thoughts!

How about H-P doesn't give a ****!  H-P used to be a "technology 
company"!  Now they are an "ink and toner company"!
R.I.P. H-P.

When their patents expire?
  Sunk without a trace!