Your patch for SSL support in nnrpd

[Kenichi Okada]

Hello,

In the message "Your patch for SSL support in nnrpd"
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Toon van der Pas <toon at vdpas.hobby.nl> wrote:

> This looks very promising.
> I hope this will be incorporated into INN soon.

Now INN-current includes it.

> Actually, what I need is just a secure way (using SASL) for users
> to logon to my newsserver over the internet, using the command
> AUTHINFO GENERIC <authorizer> <arg> <arg> <arg> ...
> The resulting session doesn't need to be encrypted.
> Is this going to be supported?

Now nnrpd implements only Security Layer support, 
which is an extension of RFC 2595. This means you can get SSL or TLS 
encrypted NNRP between your server and newsreaders. 

> BTW1:	Do you know which news clients support this kind of secure
> logon?

Wanderlust
	http://www.gohome.org/wl/index-e.html
or
Gnus + ftp://opaopa.org/pub/inn/nntp.el.patch  (experimental)

Each client needs starttls-0.2.tar.gz.

-- 
Kenichi Okada
mailto:okada at opaopa.org