Re: lynx-dev Q: lynx shopping?

[David Woolley]

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> This is about to be demonstrated once again in the virtual plugfests of
* the Global Grid Forum Grid Computing Environments Web Services Testbed,
* where they will be playing crypto implementations from rather competitive
* groups and show that they all play together.

SSL implementations can be completely interoperable and still completely
fail as a security measure.  If anything this failure to realise that 
problems that can't be easily seen compromise security is the main cause
of encryption breaches.

On the other hand, I think it might be possible to create incompatible
SSL implementations (e.g. because one only implements a patented algorithm
and the freeware one is unable to do so) that are both very secure.

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