Yes, I know pnacl very well- I used it as a sandbox for an idle cycle harvester that ran in the background of Google servers. It was never a workable technology (even when we did heroics to make it work) although many of the ideas were good.
TLS is different from TCP. TLS support might be provided by an OS, but it's certainly something an application can link in since it's really just a byte translator with some additional complex logic. TCP is an OS-level protocol for all the reasons that history chose it (having your network device and network protocol in the same ring).
Fair enough. I guess I just assumed that if the OS provided your TCP socket you'd also rely on it to provide TLS, but I'm sure I'm missing a lot of the nuance of why you'd mix and match.
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Yes, I know pnacl very well- I used it as a sandbox for an idle cycle harvester that ran in the background of Google servers. It was never a workable technology (even when we did heroics to make it work) although many of the ideas were good.
TLS is different from TCP. TLS support might be provided by an OS, but it's certainly something an application can link in since it's really just a byte translator with some additional complex logic. TCP is an OS-level protocol for all the reasons that history chose it (having your network device and network protocol in the same ring).
Fair enough. I guess I just assumed that if the OS provided your TCP socket you'd also rely on it to provide TLS, but I'm sure I'm missing a lot of the nuance of why you'd mix and match.