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IPSec doesn't support authentication well. For example, if you have a shared secret like a web cookie, how would you use this to authenticate one endpoint of an IPSec connection? It's hard, because the granularity of IPSec session keys is not the same as the granularity of tcp connections. Tcpcrypt, by contrast, makes it easy to do this--just hash the session ID together with the other authentication data.


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