[ietf-nntp] draft-ietf-nntpext-tls-nntp-01.txt

[Ken Murchison]

Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
> Ken Murchison said:
> 
>>Allowing TLS after authentication, presumably for private groups, is an 
>>interesting problem, but I think this can be easily solved by a separate 
>>NNTP connection rather than straying from restrictions already present 
>>in the other deployed messaging protocols.
> 
> 
> How do you check that the second - TLS - connection is from the same client
> as the first - authenticated - one?

You don't, the client would start TLS and authenticate on the second 
connection.

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