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

Jeffrey M. Vinocur jeff at litech.org
Fri Dec 13 11:01:18 PST 2002


On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Ken Murchison wrote:

> Charles Lindsey wrote:
>
> > Please explain to me what TLS is. Whatever, I don't think it is
> > customarily used with NNTP.
> 
> TLSv1 actually.  It is the standardized version of SSL, which is
> currently used to encrypt NNTP traffic on port 963.  

563.


> It was my understanding that Jeff or someone else was going to draft a
> STARTTLS command for NNTP.  

Yes, STARTTLS and AUTHINFO SASL are in the same draft (which we can 
debate, but not until we can actually get something out there first).


-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org




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