(START)TLS between servers?

[Steve Crook]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 03:23:25PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> nnrpd was very easy to add TLS support to because every connection to
> nnrpd has its own separate process.  Both innd and innfeed make heavy use
> of non-blocking I/O.  The TLS libraries do have some support for that, but
> my experience is that it's very difficult to get it to work properly.

I think libevent might help with this scenario:
http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/