sockets and encryption

[Paul Nilsson]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:49:27 -0500, an infinite amount of monkeys
hijacked the computer of Michael Stenner <mstenner at phy.duke.edu> and
wrote:


>Would SSL work for you?  That's basically made to do exactly what you
>describe, no?

Doesn't ssl involve getting a certificate? I'm also not sure of other
restraints that may be present, such as non ascii data. I'd rather
just open a socket and push a raw bytestream without having to conform
to a standard :)

Cheers, Paul.