INN and SSL/TLS

Todd Olson tco2 at cornell.edu
Fri Oct 17 16:02:09 UTC 2003


Hi Jeffrey

Thanks for clarifying the matter!

One last question:

At 12:45 -0400 2003/10/15, Jeffrey M. Vinocur wrote:
>In brief, we suppport both a not-yet-standardized STARTTLS command on top
>of regular port 119 connections, and nnrpd -S to listen on a separate port
>(port 563 is normal, listening either with inetd/xinetd, or with nnrpd -D
>to run in daemon mode).
>

If I was going to lean on news client writers to support the STARTTLS command
what resources would I point them at that would (hopefully) give them
enough technical information to be able to incorporate it into their clients?

Regards,
Todd Olson
Cornell University


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