Re: SSL support for tin?

On 02/25/12 at 08:14pm, Urs Janßen wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 09:05:04AM -0600, Christian Dysthe wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've been poking around documentation and not found that tin supports
> > SSL, but I thought I would ask here to be absolutely sure. Assuming
> > there's no SSL support, is it on the roadmap at all?
> 
> it is on the todo list for ~10 years now:
> 
> o  add TLS (RFC 4642), NNTPS support
>    (<http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/>, <http://www.openssl.org/>
>     might be useful (but unfortunately we use fputs()/fgets() instead of
>     read()/write() - BIO_*() may be useful);
>     "stunnel -c -d 1119 -r news.example.org:563; tin -g localhost -p 1119"
>     can be used for NNTPS) [20031210 Urs Janssen <[email protected]>]

Thanks. It would be good to have since my employer is getting more and
more paranoid demanding that all outgoing connections are secure, even
Usenet. This makes it hard for me using tin on my work computer. I'll
see if I can get stunnel working.
> 
> urs
> -- 
> "Only whimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff
>  on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)" - Linus
> 

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//Christian Dysthe

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