Secure INN

[Wim Lewis]

The Doctor <doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> writes:
> On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 05:10:33PM +0200, Przemyslaw Maciuszko wrote:
>> It does the tunneling from SSL layer.
>> It can be used to make SMTPS, POP3S, NNTPS and other.
>> http://www.stunnel.org
>
> Not exactly a great solution.  I just compile Sendmail 8.10 and
> Qpopper 4.0.3 with SSL addons, and that works better than any stunnel 
> solution.
>
> To me stunnel is a NON-solution.

What are the disadvantages of stunnel?

As far as I can tell, snews is just plain nntp carried over SSL/TLS; 
there's no other modification to the protocol. Using a simple external 
SSL implementation like stunnel seems architecturally cleaner than 
building it into innd, nnrpd, etc.