SSL/TLS can only work on top of TCP.  SSL/TLS is a connection oriented
protocol.  It does not provide support for connectionless sockets.
That is the reason that WTLS was developed for wireless devices.

> Nope, it doesn't.
> As far as I know, SSL works on top of UDP too.
> Have a look in the spec for this.
> alas, I don't know if OpenSSL works on top of other protocols, but it
> shoukd:
> you might want to use BIO's to fake 'normal' sockets.



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