SSL

We rewrote the code for the entire protocol implementation almost entirely from scratch. The old code, while quite functional from a practical standpoint, had become difficult to maintain and expand, and some parts overlapped functionality in other areas.

一週間前の文章だが、久々に Yngve の名前を見かけた。
We have disabled SSL v2 and the 40 and 56 bit encryption methods supported by SSL and TLS. と題して、SSL v2, originally developed by Netscape, is more than 11 years old. It was replaced by SSL v3 (also developed by Netscape) in 1996. SSL v2 is known to have at least one major weakness. とある。