SSL Still Mostly Misunderstood, Even By the Pros

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SSL Still Mostly Misunderstood, Even By the Pros

Posted by timothy on Monday October 12, 2009 @12:14AM from the duh-it's-encrypted dept.

An anonymous reader writes "People still don't understand SSL. This isn't much of a surprise... no one expects that grandma and grandpa know what SSL is and what it does. What is surprising and downright scary is that most IT professionals don't understand SSL, and many consider it to be the be-all, end-all of security in their organization. With all the tools out there to manipulate SSL connections, and the browser vendors unable to settle on a single method of showing if a site is secured by SSL or not, is it any wonder that no one gets it?"

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Re:Moderators, are you all friggin' retards? by Stachybotris · 2009-10-12 00:25 · Score: 5, Funny

no one expects that grandma and grandpa know how to what SSL is and what it does.

I just consider this sort of typo a cheap and lazy form of story encryption...
OpenSSL: [STILL INCOMPLETE] by Futurepower(R) · 2009-10-12 01:00 · Score: 5, Funny

The OpenSSL web site lists "[STILL INCOMPLETE]" for each of its manuals.
SSL has 7 times as many hits as TLS by tepples · 2009-10-12 01:16 · Score: 4, Funny

Good luck. Google has 9,610,000 hits for ssl certificate and 1,350,000 hits for tls certificate.
Re:Moderators, are you all friggin' retards? by rockbottoms · 2009-10-12 01:37 · Score: 5, Funny

I just consider this sort of typo a cheap and lazy form of story encryption...
I just except the typos for what they are
Re:SSL is trying to do too much. by argent · 2009-10-12 04:16 · Score: 3, Funny

Everyone knows the world will end in 2012.
Oh come on, nobody's using that old stone circle computer technology any more. Half of the Machu Picchu site is missing, they've lost the Nazca Plain key server, Avesbury is completely trashed (half the stones there are uncalibrated replacements), and Stonehenge was originally just a backup ring in case the Avon flooded: I bet you couldn't get a millithaum per second out of it even on the equinox AND with a FULL team of chanters on hand.