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[Discuss] KeePassX



Kent Borg wrote:
> I didn't realize that SSL was so stupid.  Rather important technology
> was left out of SSL, even though it was already two years old at that
> point.  Grrr.

It wasn't left out. It was intentionally excluded. Back in the day, 
Netscape was under ITAR munitions restrictions. They couldn't export a 
browser with strong authentication and encryption like Kerberos or PGP. 
So they cobbled together a weak, ad-hoc system based on the NSA-backed 
X.509 spec that passed export restrictions. That system is SSL.

Do you finally get what I've been on about?

-- 
Rich P.



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