Towards 2.3...

[Russ Allbery]

Toon van der Pas <toon at vdpas.hobby.nl> writes:

> Support for secure logon dialogs that enable people using popular news
> client software to logon to INN without exposing their userid and
> password to the rest of the world.

Well, that requires SASL support in the news clients, so I'm not sure that
we can just put something into INN and have it work.  But I agree it would
be a nice feature.  I don't think it's something we really need to have
working before 2.3 is released, though; I think there are enough changes
already to warrant a release.

> Having support for an encrypted tunnel for reading and posting news is
> of less importance to me.

For news clients that support SSL, it does give you the above, though.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>