secure news servers

[Russ Allbery]

Brian Kantor <brian at UCSD.Edu> writes:

> 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.)

Yeah, Netscape supports SSL; they use it for their own technical support
groups and the like.  I don't think it supports SASL, though; just regular
AUTHINFO USER/PASS over SSL.

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