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Re: Digest mess

From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 13:24:12 +0000
Message-Id: <349680FC.389DC51D@algroup.co.uk>
To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>
Cc: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, HTTP Working Group <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com> 
Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> 
> >> The current definition seems to have lost
> >> all of the advantages it had over transport-level encryption,
> >
> >Except that it doesn't require encryption.
> 
> Sorry, I meant transport-level security (TLS).

TLS requires encryption.

Cheers,

Ben.

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Received on Tuesday, 16 December 1997 05:25:48 EST

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