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I seem to remember that Microsoft's initial implementation used a field in the protocol in an incompatible way to encode that it was a different implementation.
by aag 1y ago
I seem to remember that Microsoft's initial implementation used a field in the protocol in an incompatible way to encode that it was a different implementation. I remember people being annoyed at them for deliberately screwing up future compatibility. Does anyone remember the details of this?
- ekr____ 1y agoIIRC they were using a cipher suite to signal the new version. Cipher suites were basically the only signaling mechanism in SSLv2 (and SSLv3/TLS 1.0 before extensions were introduced).