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From: Invisible
Date: 17 Oct 2011 05:07:50
Message: <4e9bf066$1@news.povray.org>

On 16/10/2011 11:58 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 10/10/2011 3:11, Invisible wrote:
>> Every Windows protocol I know of sends everything unencrypted by
>> default, and most of them offer no possibility of adding encryption.
>
> Actually, every internet protocol up to about the invention of SSL sends
> everything unecrypted by default. Including the Windows protocols.
>
> Pretty much everything after SSL is encrypted.

1. Isn't it TLS now?

2. There are Internet protocols *newer* than TLS? (OK, well I'm sure 
there are, but does anybody *use* them?)

3. Since old versions of Windows send everything unencrypted, you would 
think that means that new versions have to send everything unencrypted 
too, for the sake of backwards compatibility.

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