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Admin SSL was originally written by Haris, updating the Secure Admin plugin by Ryan Boren to work with PHP 5.  However, with the release of WordPress 2.5 various changes were made to the way WordPress authenticates users – thus breaking Haris' Admin SSL plugin.

At this point I took over developing Admin SSL, because Haris was unable to invest the time required.  At first this was limited to bug fixes, making it compatible with WordPress 2.5, but this has turned into a complete code re-write, adding many extra features.  I released Admin SSL 1.0 and 1.1.

As of 1.0, Admin SSL does not secure every single admin page by default, allowing you to take advantage of the speed improvements in WP 2.5.1.  However, if you want to secure all those pages, add 'wp-admin/' to the
additional urls box on the config page.

Since WordPress 3.0, there have been some major changes in the WordPress core.  Finally I have managed to update Admin SSL (to version 2.0) which supports 3.0+, but unfortunately not previous versions of WordPress.  To be honest you really should upgrade for all the WordPress security updates as well.