designed for reliability.
Within the context of the design goals, how do others compare?
| Name | Orient | Minus | Plus |
| SSL | Conn |
no recovery X509 :-( messy |
mature |
| SSH2 | Conn | no recovery | clean |
| SOX | Packet | still evolving |
reliabile! clean fleet of foot HTTP/email |
Internally, SOX is evolving towards a generalised form of SSH2.