ANNOUNCE: SafeGossip first beta

1999-11-22 Thread Pete Chown
At long last, here is the first beta release of SafeGossip, which implements the new RFCs and Internet drafts for telnet, FTP, IMAP, POP and SMTP over TLS. Here are some of the new features: * Telnet support is now implemented according to the Internet draft. * You can now configure SafeGossip

Re: SafeGossip

1999-10-07 Thread Derek J. Balling
At 10:14 AM 10/7/99 +0100, Ben Laurie wrote: IIRC, providing "hooks" to strong-crypto stuff is also considered the same as providing strong-crypto itself, according to U.S. Idiocy^WLaw. Allegedly, it isn't illegal, but the spooks keep telling everyone it is. IANAL. Dunno. Sendmail's not

RE: SafeGossip

1999-10-07 Thread Michael J. Markowitz
At 10:42 AM 10/7/99 -0400, Salz, Rich wrote: I'd be very thankfull if you, or anyone, could point me to the text of the law that actually forbids export of "crypto with a hole". However, that's all the past. The current regulations are pretty explicit. You can find them at

RE: SafeGossip

1999-10-07 Thread Michael J. Markowitz
At 10:42 AM 10/7/99 -0400, Salz, Rich wrote: I'd be very thankfull if you, or anyone, could point me to the text of the law that actually forbids export of "crypto with a hole". However, that's all the past. The current regulations are pretty explicit. You can find them at

Re: SafeGossip

1999-10-05 Thread peter+openssl-users
Quoting Jeffrey Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As for Telnet over SSL, which are you implementing: . Tim Hudson\'s hack (AUTH SSL) . The IETF\'s START_TLS ? Tim Hudson\'s hack does not prevent man in the middle attacks and requires that user\'s submit their passwords to the server (which

Re: SafeGossip

1999-10-05 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Is there any open source telnetd\'s with START_TLS support available, or is this something that should be done? It needs to be done. I have implemented START_TLS but as I am in the U.S. can't contribute it to the rest of the world. Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer * Kermit-95

SafeGossip

1999-10-04 Thread Pete Chown
Some of you have been asking about my package which implements various protocols over TLS. Here is an alpha release. I have called the package SafeGossip, or Gossip for short. Currently the protocols implemented are FTP, telnet (sort of), IMAP, SMTP and POP. Gossip supports both the old