Re: Welcome to the ietf-apps-tls mailing list

At 7:02 PM -0700 5/6/97, John Gardiner Myers wrote:
>Given that anything implementing STARTTLS is "new", why support SSL2.0
>at all?

There are toolkits for it that some people like.

>Is there a real need to negotiate the difference between SSL3.0 and TLS?

Yes. SSL3.0 and TLS have protocol differences, and some implementations
might support one and not the other.

>It's kinda annoying the SSL folks apparently didn't figure out how to
>negotiate protocol extension stuff within the SSL/TLS protocol itself.

This is the ietf-apps-tls list, not the ietf-tls list. :-)

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