A system with the default behavior of Secure Responder always initiates and accepts traffic that is not secured. However, it will accept a secure communication if it is initiated by another system. Of course, the negotiation will succeed only if one of the proposals in the list offered by the initiator can be matched by the responder.
Secure Responder is a likely behavior for the majority of workstations in a network. Communications will always be allowed in the clear between systems that are Secure Responders or Secure Initiators, but will communicate securely with a system (usually a server) with Lockdown default behavior.
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