RE: RDDP and SSL/TLS

Due to the desire to enable "direct placement" of RDDP packets when they
come in, including when they are out of order, SSL/TLS is not a good fit
below the DDP layer.  SSL/TLS wants the incoming data to be part of a
continuous stream of data for decoding.  So IPSEC is the recommended
method of securing RDDP connections.  I suppose it remains possible for
some layer above RDDP to use SSL/TLS, in fact it is probably going to
happen if SDP over RDDP is used to enable legacy applications.

Paul R. Culley
HP Fellow
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Rajiv Das
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 1:40 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [rddp] RDDP and SSL/TLS
> 
> Hi,
> So far as I understand RDDP is layered over the transport 
> layer eg TCP.
> Incidentally, SSL/TLS is also layered over TCP. So what is 
> the position of RDDP vis-a-vis SSL/TLS on the protocol stack?
> 
> 
> -------------------
> Have a nice day,
> Rajiv
>