[49376] in Cypherpunks
Re: "PGP-Scape"? (was Re: Our "New Order")
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Pettitt)
Tue Feb 6 17:42:56 1996
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 14:33:28 -0800
To: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: John Pettitt <jpp@software.net>
At 01:58 PM 2/6/96 -0800, Tom Weinstein wrote:
>Deranged Mutant wrote:
>>
>> No. SSL doesn't encrypt everything, just certain transactions (or am I
>> wrong about this?) Something that keeps everything encrypted and
>> anonymous.
>
>SSL encrypts everything that goes across an SSL connection.
>
>
I think the confusion is that most sites don't run anything but transactions
over the SSL link for speed reasons. Anything the the user and/or webmaster
*choose* to send over an SSL pipe is protected (assuming non export versions).
John Pettitt, jpp@software.net
VP Engineering, CyberSource Corporation, 415 473 3065
"Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man
doesn't have to experience it." - Max Frisch
