Kent Borg wrote:
I didn't realize that SSL was so stupid. Rather important technology was left out of SSL, even though it was already two years old at that point. Grrr.
It wasn't left out. It was intentionally excluded. Back in the day, Netscape was under ITAR munitions restrictions. They couldn't export a browser with strong authentication and encryption like Kerberos or PGP. So they cobbled together a weak, ad-hoc system based on the NSA-backed X.509 spec that passed export restrictions. That system is SSL.
Do you finally get what I've been on about? -- Rich P. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
