Re: Terminology in isakmpd.conf (5)

["Marco Peereboom" <slash@peereboom.us>]

See your friend dictionary.com:
They are talking about option 3

trans·form   Pronunciation Key  (trns-fôrm)
v. trans·formed, trans·form·ing, trans·forms
v. tr.
  1.. To change markedly the appearance or form of: "A thick, fibrous fog
had transformed the trees into ghosts and the streetlights into soft, haloed
moons" (David Michael Kaplan).
  2.. To change the nature, function, or condition of; convert. See Synonyms
at convert.
  3.. Mathematics. To subject to a transformation.
  4.. Electricity. To subject to the action of a transformer.
  5.. Genetics. To subject (a cell) to transformation.

v. intr.
  To undergo a transformation.

n. (trnsfôrm)
  The result, especially a mathematical quantity or linguistic construction,
of a transformation

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frederic Lemoine" <karlmarx@fastmail.fm>
To: <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2002 10:05
Subject: Terminology in isakmpd.conf (5)


> Hello,
>
> This question is just for curiosity and not really technical. You may
> want to know that my mother tongue is French, as this question could
> sound weird for an English speaker.
>
> In the man page for isakmpd.conf (5), there are some lines about "Main
> mode transforms", _ISAKMP-transform_, _IPSEC-transform_
>
> If I check the meaning of "transform" in an English/French IT
> dictionnary, I got the word used for the Fourier or Walsh or Hadamard
> transform.
>
> I was wondering why is this word used in the context of ISAKMP, and
> how to understand it.
>
> Frederic.

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