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Re: Nullsoft's WASTE communication system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Salz)
Sat May 31 11:08:22 2003
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Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 21:26:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rich Salz <rsalz@datapower.com>
To: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Cc: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>,
cypherpunks <cypherpunks@lne.com>,
"cryptography@metzdowd.com" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <kjhe7c1lbn.fsf@romeo.rtfm.com>
> It's utterly baffling to me why people like this choose to design
> their own thing rather than just using SSL.
Totally agree. At this point in time, if it's a TCP based protocol
and it isn't built on SSL/TLS, it should pretty much be treated
as snake oil, I'd say. Perhaps some kind of evangelism is needed.
/r$
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