IPSec Overhead in Dual Stack IPv4/IPv6 Transition Mechanisms: An Analytical Study

IPSec Overhead in Dual Stack IPv4/IPv6 Transition Mechanisms: An Analytical Study

M. Mujinga (University of Fort Hare, South Africa), Hippolyte Muyingi (University of Fort Hare, South Africa), Alfredo Terzoli (Rhodes University, South Africa) and G. S. V. Radha Krishna Rao (University of Fort Hare, South Africa)
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-950-2.ch014

Abstract

Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the next generation Internet protocol proposed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to supplant the current Internet protocol version 4 (IPv4). Lack of security below the application layer in IPv4 is one of the reasons why there is a need for a new IP. IPv6 has built-in support for the Internet protocol security protocol (IPSec). This chapter reports work done to evaluate implications of compulsory use of IPSec on dual stack IPv4/IPv6 environment.

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