[Cryptography] TLS/DTLS Use Cases

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Sat Apr 5 21:08:33 EDT 2014


On Sat, 5 Apr 2014, Nico Williams wrote:

> Also, HTTP is just about the worst datagram protocol ever.  There's no 
> XID, so responses have to be sent in the same order as requests over any 
> one keptalive TCP connection.  Yuck.  (When I've brought this up in the 
> context of HTTPbis I've been told to go away.)

One word: FTP.  It's said that it's no surprise that it came from the same 
place as did marijuana...

-- Dave


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