[NNTP] Re: Comments on draft-ietf-nntp-tls-nntp-05.txt

Andrew Gierth andrew at erlenstar.demon.co.uk
Wed May 25 22:21:16 PDT 2005


>>>>> "EKR" == EKR  <ekr at rtfm.com> writes:

 >> Well, nondisclosure limits how much I can say, but it's
 >> unquestionably true that (a) traffic levels of many gigabits are
 >> the norm rather than the exception in the commercial Usenet
 >> provider industry (which is a very significant user of
 >> authenticated NNTP connections, and more importantly also has a
 >> major effect on client development) and (b) the CPU cost of
 >> encrypting all that, purely to protect the password, is not
 >> something that can simply be absorbed.

 EKR> Yeah, this falls more into the category of assertion than data. 

What sort of data would you like?

-- 
Andrew.



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