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A security engineer is building the ordered policy table an IPsec implementation consults for every packet crossing the boundary, and a reviewer wants the test plan to cover every outcome a policy lookup can produce. Which dispositions can a lookup return? Choose three.

  1. Discard, dropping the packet so that it never crosses the boundary
  2. Protect, handing the packet to Authentication Header or Encapsulating Security Payload
  3. Queue, holding the packet until a matching security association is negotiated
  4. Bypass, letting the packet cross with no cryptographic treatment
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Answer: A. Discard, dropping the packet so that it never crosses the boundary
D. Bypass, letting the packet cross with no cryptographic treatment
B. Protect, handing the packet to Authentication Header or Encapsulating Security Payload

A policy lookup returns discard, bypass or protect; queuing pending negotiation is no policy disposition. The table is ordered because wildcards and value ranges create overlapping rules.

Source: RFC 4301 (IETF) — RFC 4301 > 4.4.1 The Security Policy Database (SPD)

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