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    [IPSEC]: Sync series - acquire insert · 980ebd25
    Jamal Hadi Salim authored
    This introduces a feature similar to the one described in RFC 2367:
    "
       ... the application needing an SA sends a PF_KEY
       SADB_ACQUIRE message down to the Key Engine, which then either
       returns an error or sends a similar SADB_ACQUIRE message up to one or
       more key management applications capable of creating such SAs.
       ...
       ...
       The third is where an application-layer consumer of security
       associations (e.g.  an OSPFv2 or RIPv2 daemon) needs a security
       association.
    
            Send an SADB_ACQUIRE message from a user process to the kernel.
    
            <base, address(SD), (address(P),) (identity(SD),) (sensitivity,)
              proposal>
    
            The kernel returns an SADB_ACQUIRE message to registered
              sockets.
    
            <base, address(SD), (address(P),) (identity(SD),) (sensitivity,)
              proposal>
    
            The user-level consumer waits for an SADB_UPDATE or SADB_ADD
            message for its particular type, and then can use that
            association by using SADB_GET messages.
    
     "
    An app such as OSPF could then use ipsec KM to get keys
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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