[235] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: info on proposed SSL protocol and Netscape implementation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Andreessen)
Thu Nov 24 09:14:06 1994
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 1994 06:22:08 -0500
To: Wolfgang Roeckelein <wolfgang@wi.whu-koblenz.de>,
Karl Auerbach <karl@cavebear.com>
From: marca@neon.mcom.com (Marc Andreessen)
Cc: www-security@ns1.rutgers.edu
Reply-To: marca@neon.mcom.com (Marc Andreessen)
>Regarding the general IP security (I think you that IPng thing) is going to
>last several years till it becomes operational IMHO.
Yup, and it would be extraordinarily difficult to try to support a
security layer between TCP and IP on a wide range of platforms and networking
implementations today. SSL can and does layer on top of existing TCP/IP
implementations across arbitrary platforms (Mac, Windows, Unix, whatever),
today.
>SSL could become reality in the next year.
Yup -- we have it operational in the latest Netscape betas (0.93 and 0.94),
and we're in beta on the corresponding server. It should be relatively
straightforward for others to implement, as it's fairly lightweight.
Cheers,
Marc
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Marc Andreessen
Netscape Communications Corporation
Mountain View, CA
marca@mcom.com
