On 10/17/2011 2:07, Invisible wrote:
> 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?

Yes. And TLS came after SSL, right?

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

Um, lots, yes.  You think there haven't been any new internet protocols 
since mid-1990's?

> 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.

Unless the protocol was invented after SSL, at which point there is no 
backward compatibility requirements with pre-encryption protocols.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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