On Sun, 05 May 2002 01:04:10 EDT, Bill Cunningham <billcu@citynet.net> said: > Is there a rfc for secure socket layer? RFC2246 on TLS? Or you looking specifically for SSL instead? I believe that was a Netscape spec rather than an IETF one, but I may be mistaken (although 2246 says this: 3. Goals of this document This document and the TLS protocol itself are based on the SSL 3.0 Protocol Specification as published by Netscape. The differences between this protocol and SSL 3.0 are not dramatic, but they are significant enough that TLS 1.0 and SSL 3.0 do not interoperate (although TLS 1.0 does incorporate a mechanism by which a TLS implementation can back down to SSL 3.0). This document is intended Hope that helps... Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech