Re: Libraries digest, Vol 1 #272 - 12 msgs (SSL)

Message: 12 Subject: Re: monad library From: Martin =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sj=F6gren?= To: libraries@haskell.org Date: 30 Jul 2003 08:59:30 +0200

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ons 2003-07-30 klockan 04.26 skrev Andrew J Bromage:

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Our taxonomies are, for better or worse, DAG-shaped. SSL, for example, can legitimately go under both "network communication" and "cryptography", which are quite different fields of computer science.

For the record, I don't agree with this. I could agree to having SSL under some sort of "security" category, but it's completely orthogonal to cryptography. I frequently use SSL without encryption because I just need authentication.

You are still using encryption for the authentication (RSA) even if you are not encrypting the stream. (RC4). However, I think the classification ought to put RSA and RC4 into Codec.Encryption but SSL into Network. Dominic.