From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 94 11:00:37 PST
To: kipp@warp.mcom.com (Kipp E.B. Hickman)
Subject: Re: IPSP and Netscape
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Kipp wrote:

| IPSP was not in my vocabulary at the time of the first posting. Ignorance
| was briefly bliss :^)

	My, this is a _tasty_ burger.

| However, regardless of whether or not extant hardware is reusable,
| there is still the not so small matter of software. Software for PC's,
| MAC's and a host of UNIX machines before a workable secure network can
| be constructed. It is a good thing that IPSP requires only software to
| meet it's goals. This same property is true of SSL.
| 
| Finally, I never said that "SSL is better than anything out there". I
| don't know who did. All I said is that "SSL is something", which isn't
| really saying much. SSL is A solution to A set of problems, namely
| privacy and authentication.

	I'm not sure I understand.  Could you explain what you mean by
privacy, and how it is maintained by SSL?  (My question, obviously, is
informed by Hal's recent comments on privacy.)

Adam


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