#45 SSL please!!! =)

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I am a computer science major at Brown and all my CS classes have
newsgroups where you can post questions, comments, and otherwise
communicate with students, TAs and the professor. I would love to be
able to use OSXNews for this, but my school's nntp server
(news.brown.edu) requires SSL connections from off campus. Could this
feature please be added?

Thanks!
Josh

[Anurodh Pokharel]

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I'll see if i can add it to the next version. i shouldn't be hard.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Also going to school and my servers require SSL access too. I tried putting in
port 563 since changing the port is an option, but SSL is required and
apparently not in this release yet. :-) PLEASE? ;-) Good work so far.

[Gregor kos]

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yes please - it would be truly useful!

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Me too! (I work for an international non-governmental organisation and we use nntps for internal communication.) Thanks in advance!

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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For people who want ssl now, look at "stunnel". You set it up, it intercepts your nntp requests and does all the encryption magic, decrypting what it receives.

You set up stunnel for your nntp server. Then in your news client, choose "localhost" for the server, the port you set up stunnel to listen to locally, and your username and password. Voila, any plain vanilla news reader can use nntp with ssl.

Stunnel comes in windows, OSX, and Linux flavors.