ietf-nntp WG Review of draft-dfncis-netnews-admin-sys-05.txt

Robert Schuettler rober at cis.fu-berlin.de
Thu Apr 17 08:01:55 PDT 2003


On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 04:54:50PM +0200, Robert Schuettler wrote:

> [ Proposed updates for NAS text at the very end. ]
(...)
> ---8<--[new]------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 9.  Security Considerations
> 
>    Security issues are only addressed in respect to server-server
>    communication in this protocol level. Username and password
>    combinations in the GETA and GETP commands can be used to make sure
>    that connections are only accepted from authorized clients. PGP keys
>    according to [RFC2240] are used to sign NAS data in server-server

Ooops! That needs to be [RFC2440] of course.

Sorry about that. Happy Easter! Robert

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