On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 08:01:08PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> I got confused because most other software refers to STARTTLS as just 'TLS'.

Can you please provide a reference to that? STARTTLS is a very specific
way to negotiate TLS'd connections, and should never be abbreviated to
'TLS'. STARTTLS is the encryption negotiation support in a protocol, to
negiotiate switching from plain to TLS, the 'START' bit is very
significant.

I really doubt 'most' software confuses STARTTLS with TLS this way, and
where it does, it should be fixed.

--Jeroen

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