[715] in bugtraq
Re: "Secure Socket Layer" protocol (NYT Article)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Mon Jan 23 23:24:14 1995
To: Richard Huddleston <reh@wam.umd.edu>
Cc: perry@imsi.com, bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Jan 1995 21:46:01 EST."
<199501240246.VAA14885@rac9.wam.umd.edu>
Reply-To: perry@imsi.com
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 1995 22:09:41 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Richard Huddleston says:
> There's a protocol being touted by Netcape Communications Corportation
> (formerly Mosaic Communications Corportation) which is supposedly strong
> enough to conduct commerce over.
I don't want to debate SSL here, but as I see it, its a bad idea. This
really belongs at the network layer, where the proposals that the IP
Security working group all have been made. (Netscape kind of ignored
everyone at IPSec, along with the rest of the IETF, and the rest of
the world.)
> I'm not a member of the Brainiac Protocol Busters Club, but the protocol
> looks pretty good to me.
Not to me; I doubt we needed another one of these...
But as I said, this really isn't the place to carry out this debate.
Perry
