Kipp wrote: | IPSP was not in my vocabulary at the time of the first posting. Ignorance | was briefly bliss :^) My, this is a _tasty_ burger. | However, regardless of whether or not extant hardware is reusable, | there is still the not so small matter of software. Software for PC's, | MAC's and a host of UNIX machines before a workable secure network can | be constructed. It is a good thing that IPSP requires only software to | meet it's goals. This same property is true of SSL. | | Finally, I never said that "SSL is better than anything out there". I | don't know who did. All I said is that "SSL is something", which isn't | really saying much. SSL is A solution to A set of problems, namely | privacy and authentication. I'm not sure I understand. Could you explain what you mean by privacy, and how it is maintained by SSL? (My question, obviously, is informed by Hal's recent comments on privacy.) Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume