On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 01:45:37PM +0200, Doris Diedrich wrote:
> Nope, it doesn't.
> As far as I know, SSL works on top of UDP too.
"As far as I know" means "I didn't try it" :-)
Try it on a loaded network. Let us know if it works.
> Have a look in the spec for this.
If you'd read the SSL or TLS specs, you would have seen these:
The SSL spec says in section 3:
"At the lowest level, layered on top of some reliable transport protocol
(e.g., TCP), is the SSL Record Protocol".
The TLS spec says in section 1:
"At the lowest level, layered on top of some reliable
transport protocol (e.g., TCP[TCP]), is the TLS Record Protocol."
That's not to say that someone hasn't written a spec to
run SSL over UDP, with a layer that provides reliable delivery.
Of course that's duplicating the functionality of TCP, but
people reinvent the wheel all the time...
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