Secure INN

The Doctor doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
Mon Sep 10 22:55:03 UTC 2001


On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 02:45:49PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> The Doctor <doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> writes:
> > On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 12:14:30PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> >> nnrpd can speak the nntps protocol as I understand it.  (I don't
> >> believe there really is a "protocol"; it's just SSL around regular
> >> NNTP.)  innd doesn't have any support for it at present.
> 
> > Russ can INN/TLS/SSL  be ready in 2.3 next, 2.4 or 3.X? 
> 
> nnrpd supports SSL now.  Has since 2.3, if I recall.  So if you *really*
> need secure feeding, you can fake it with suck/rpost.
> 
> This is the first time anyone's mentioned wanting news transport over SSL
> that I can recall, so I haven't even thought about it.  Initial guess is
> that it's likely to be pretty hard to do.
> 
> -- 
> Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
> 

Can we look at Sendmail/qpopper/apache-ssl  as models?


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