[243] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: info on proposed SSL protocol and Netscape implementation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg King)
Mon Nov 28 16:20:50 1994
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 94 13:49:08 EST
From: king@reston.ans.net (Greg King)
To: www-security@ns1.rutgers.edu, zurko@osf.org
Cc: hallam@dxal18.cern.ch
Reply-To: king@reston.ans.net (Greg King)
> Our approach is similar to SSL's, in that the security occurs at the
> transport layer.
> Mez
>
>
While security at the transport layer can certainly support a wider range
of application protocols it would seem impossible to gateway such services
thru firewalls that implement application based proxies.
Greg
