On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 22:53:58 +0200 (MET DST), Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
wrote:
>I haven't heard of OpenSSL being integrated into the kernel.
>
>I wonder, what would the purpose be?
The idea would be that if two such machines had SSL implemented in their
kernel and both administrators had appropriately configured them, all
communications between those two hosts could be encrypted transparently with
no changes to existing applications. I won't bother listing all the reasons
why this is a bad idea.
DS
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