John J. Lee enlightened us with: > Of course, remembering that the first thing to ask in response to > "is it secure?" is "against what?", for lots of purposes it just > doesn't matter that it ignores certificates.
I'm curious. Can you give me an example? AFAIK you need to know who you're talking to before transmitting sensitive information, otherwise you could be talking to anybody - and that's just what you wanted to prevent with the encryption, right? Sybren -- The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? Frank Zappa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list