I don't know if it will be a consideration for you, but CF
only supports SSLv2 which is considered weak and vulnerable.
The desired protocols are the (SSL 3.0) protocol and
Transport Layer Security (TLS 1.0) protocol.
SSLv2 is a server only authentication and the others are
client & server.
You might want to check out this article on IE7 and SSLv2.
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/10/22/483795.aspx
I started another thread asking when Adobe would upgrade CF
to work with SSLv3 and if anyone knows of a 3rd party solution
available now.
It seems hard to imagine but Adobe is already a few years
behind the curve on this. They did not include support for the new
technologies in the latest version and the old SSLv2 is being
deprecated leaving nowhere to turn for secure
communications.