Yang, Marc, et. All,

>> I am worried that the flags change in your use cases. And I really don't 
>> like the
>> idea of ignoring or just warning about non-matching flags. 
>> ISC_RET_CONFIDENTIALITY, ISC_RET_REPLAY_DETECT and ISC_RET_SEQUENCE_DETECT 
>> are pretty important to make sure that the SSL connection is actually 
>> "secure". Why
>> would you want to communicate through an SSL connection that is actually not
>> secure? There should be some other way to fix this.

>> I am pretty busy with final exams during the following weeks, so I 
>> would like to ask whether you or someone else could spend a little 
>> more research on this issue before simple ignoring the source of the 
>> actual problem. Thanks in advance, I would really appreciate it!

>No intention to ignore it on this side. Actually I'm raising the issue 
>publicly, and listening to your >recommendation of not disabling the check.

I loaded the URL Yang mentioned the problem with -  https://www.digicert.com/ - 
without issues on WinXP and Win7.  I don't have a Win2k machine to duplicate 
the problem on.

MSDN says InitializeSecurityContext() with the flags we care about here are 
supported from Win2k onwards.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa375924(v=vs.85).aspx

One possibility is to disable the checks only on Win2k (something like #if 
WINVER <= 0x400).  I'd recommend not making any change though until we learn 
more.  I tried a quick search of the web but did not find anything.

Mark

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