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

[Ken Murchison]

"Jeffrey M. Vinocur" wrote:
> 
> 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.

Doh!  Was thinking about IMAPS and POP3S which are both in the 900's.


> > 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).


Any ETA for the draft?

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