ietf-nntp TLS response codes

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Ken Murchison wrote:

> "Jeffrey M. Vinocur" wrote:
> 
> > Ken, once the client and server agree to begin TLS negotiation, is it
> > possible for there to be a failure that would not requiring closing the
> > connection?  (That is, where both parties would know on which octet the
> > unencrypted connection resumes.)
> 
> Sure.  They might not be able to agree on a cipher.

Ah, hmm.

So what do existing STARTTLS-type extensions do in this case?



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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
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