RE: [ga] Secure DNS

[Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 05:41 18/09/2000 -0700, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
>Kinda, TLS is for third-party verification of the cert. It both
>authenticates and encrypts. The downside is that it is server-centric.
>Unlike SSL, which is satisfied with a simple signature, TLS actually
>goes to the CA and checks the cert.

this is a property of the implementation, not of the protocol.
TLS *IS* SSL version 3.0 with the owner names changed and some minor tweaks 
to the list of cryptoalgorithms.

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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, alvestrand@cisco.com
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