secure news servers

[Brian Kantor]

I just did a bit of experimentation; Netscape 3 has a dialog box for opening
a news server that has a SECURE button.  When that button is pressed, it
attempts to open a connection to port 563 instead of 119.  563 is listed
in my /etc/services file as

   snews           563/tcp         ssl             # SSL-based NNTP



Wrapping nntp with 'stunnel' 

   snews stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/libexec/stunnel @localhost:nntp

logged an attempt to open an SSL-encrypted connection, so it would appear
there is at least one SSL-equipped news client out there.  (Our news server
doesn't currently have any X509 certificates, so I couldn't test further.
I'll put it on my list to generate one and see what happens, but I can't
get to it soon.)
	- Brian