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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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