[cap-talk] OO interoperation via OCap, presentation level issues

[Tony Finch]

On Fri, 9 May 2008, Kevin Reid wrote:
> On May 9, 2008, at 0:44, Rob Meijer wrote:
> >
> > 1) Is there a specific reason why SSL, not TLS was chosen for this ?
>
> I never remember the difference.

There isn't any. The IETF took over maintenance of SSL from Netscape and
renamed it to TLS. TLS 1.0 is SSL 3.1 and TLS 1.1 is SSL 3.2, according to
the version number field in the protocol.

(The IETF often does this: they renamed Jabber to XMPP when they took over
its maintenance.)

In some circumstances (SMTP/IMAP/POP/LDAP) SSL is used to mean "establish
SSL or TLS immediately after connecting" and TLS is used to mean
"establish SSL or TLS after a STARTTLS command".

Tony.
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