On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 12:50:04PM +0200, Robert Raszuk wrote:
| If indeed requirement is to support decent authentication on wide
| spectrum of operating systems why not consider application level
| approach of SSL/TLS and leave the need for TCP kernel hacking alone
| ? rfc5246 ?
|
| Routers support it today so would any unix flavor as it will come
| with the application if not already there.
hi robert,
---
quoting from rfc 5246:
The primary goal of the TLS protocol is to provide privacy and data
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
integrity between two communicating applications. The protocol is
^^^^^^^^^
composed of two layers: the TLS Record Protocol and the TLS Handshake
Protocol. At the lowest level, layered on top of some reliable
transport protocol (e.g., TCP [TCP]), is the TLS Record Protocol.
The TLS Record Protocol provides connection security that has two
basic properties:
---
we are just looking for a protocol which ensures data-integrity,
privacy is not of concern;
/hannes
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