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diff --git a/share/man/man4/ipsec.4 b/share/man/man4/ipsec.4 index 36c9e61c0e0..f4665cb7274 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/ipsec.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/ipsec.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: ipsec.4,v 1.75 2006/08/29 18:14:26 jmc Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: ipsec.4,v 1.76 2006/08/31 11:46:39 jmc Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright 1997 Niels Provos <provos@physnet.uni-hamburg.de> .\" All rights reserved. @@ -55,13 +55,6 @@ Enable the ESP IPsec protocol Enable the AH IPsec protocol .El .Pp -The original Internet Protocol, IPv4, -does not inherently provide any -protection to transferred data. -Furthermore, it does not even guarantee that the sender is who he -claims to be. -IPsec tries to remedy this by providing the required security services for -IP datagrams. There are four main security properties provided by IPsec: .Bl -inset -offset indent .It Confidentiality @@ -380,6 +373,11 @@ flag (look for ``tdb'' and ``xform'' allocations). .Xr isakmpd 8 , .Xr sysctl 8 .Sh HISTORY +IPsec was originally designed to provide security services +for Internet Protocol IPv6. +It has since been engineered to provide those services for +the original Internet Protocol, IPv4. +.Pp The IPsec protocol design process was started in 1992 by John Ioannidis, Phil Karn, and William Allen Simpson. In 1995, the former wrote an implementation for |