ietf-nntp Re: WG Review: Simple Authentication and Security Layer (sasl)

[Russ Allbery]

Charles Lindsey <chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:

> Please explain to me what TLS is.

The current version of SSL.

> Whatever, I don't think it is customarily used with NNTP.

Yes, it is, for some applications.  Generally over a separate port,
although INN in CVS has some initial support for STARTTLS.

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