On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 10:29:00 -0500 Vivek Gupta <vgupta@karlnet.com> wrote: > to the best of my knowledge .... > just the version numbers .... > > Anyone knows the main differences between SSL and TLS? um, no. from Rescorla, _SSL and TLS: Designing and Building Secure Systems_, page 50: "a number of minor changes were made to the document, ..., with the effect that key expansion and the message authentication computations are totally incompatible with SSLv3, destroying most backward compatibility." the book is quite good. i suggest that it is a better investment than pestering the IETF mailing list with SSL and TLS questions. richard -- Richard Welty rwelty@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592 Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security