[RHCE] TLS vs. SSL discussion
Jeremy Portzer
rhce@trilug.org
17 Apr 2003 15:07:33 -0400
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On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 14:57, Mike Broome wrote:
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> I was going to look this up today, but you beat me to it. :)
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> So we were both right.=20
Yep.
> I still disagree with your statement that "TLS
> and SSL are the same thing".=20
I should have said "in practice" -- as we've seen, there are slight
differences per the spec.
> From the RFC I see that they are not, and
> TLS is, as I suspected, slightly changed from SSL. (That's what
> standards bodies live to do. :)
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> But that's mostly a semantic distinction since the reality of it is that
> the two are fully interoperable and interchangeable when TLS operates
> using the "mechanism by which a TLS implementation can back down to SSL
> 3.0"
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> Thanks for sending out the info. I don't think Jason's going to get the
> fight he was hoping for.
Surely we can think of something else to fight over. Jason, any ideas?=20
;-)
--Jeremy
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