[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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