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Inside Macintosh: Networking /
Chapter 5 - AppleTalk Data Stream Protocol (ADSP) / About ASDSP


The Data Encryption Feature

After ASDSP successfully completes the authentication process, the two ends of the connection whose identities have been verified can exchange data and they can also encrypt that data. The ASDSP encryption feature allows each party to send data that can be trusted to be securely transmitted in a manner that is unreadable by anyone other than the intended recipient until that data is decrypted by ASDSP and delivered to the recipient at the other end of the ASDSP session connection. ASDSP encrypts only data
in the main data stream; it does not encrypt data in attention messages or ASDSP
packet headers.


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7 JUL 1996