James A. Donald: >> SSL is layered on top of TCP, and then one layers >> one's actual protocol on top of SSL, with the result >> that a transaction involves a painfully large number >> of round trips.
Richard Salz wrote: > Perhaps theoretically painful, but in practice this is > not the case; commerce on the web is the > counter-example. The delay is often humanly perceptible. If humanly perceptible, too much. > The benefits of layering for outweigh the perceived > gains of just merging it all together into one glob. > For example, the ability to replace layers, or replace > them by just dropping in a new library. Compilation would provide the same benefits, and a fair bit more - such as built in protocol negotiation, rather than protocol negotiation being reinvented ad hoc in a different and incompatible way each, and bolted on after the fact in a different way each time. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
