At 07:50 PM 12/17/2002 +0000, Frank O'Dwyer wrote: > > As for having to re-do auth, privacy, etc., it seems odd not to just > > standardize a TCP service and use SSL if encryption/authentication > > is desired. Especially since, in the huge-horking-central-logserver > > scenario, SSL would let you use commodity SSL accellerators to buy > > the needed performance. > >SSL doesn't provide client authentication (at least not easily & on its >own).
It certainly does -- you can use certificates at the client end. And you can choose not to if you wish.
