Towards 2.3...

Toon van der Pas toon at vdpas.hobby.nl
Sat Mar 25 21:45:59 UTC 2000


On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 01:01:17PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.

Are you sure that SASL isn't supported by the news clients?
I think I'm going to make some dumps of logon dialogs next week...

> 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.

Yes, you are right.
Better have something extra than nothing at all.  :-)



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