> You haven't given a single technical argument that will convince
> system experts in these big corporations that they have dug themselves
> a "very nice hole". The meaningless rhetoric "WAP is bad" doesn't
> convince any one.

The problem that WAP has is that it is not used for end to end
connections.  WAP will protect the data from the wireless device to a
proxy server which must be able to decrypt the data so that it can be
retransmitted over a SSL/TLS connection to the real HTTP server.
That means that I as a corporate service provider MUST trust the
wireless provider's security and their promise not to look at my
data.  I'm sorry, but this is not a system that I will rely on.
Since WAP is not end to end, it is of no use to me.



                  Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer
                 The Kermit Project * Columbia University
               612 West 115th St * New York, NY * 10025 * USA
     http://www.kermit-project.org/ * [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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