From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Dec 16 21:29:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA11152 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 21:29:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scanner.worldgate.com (scanner.worldgate.com [198.161.84.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA11134 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 21:29:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcs@znep.com) Received: from znep.com (uucp@localhost) by scanner.worldgate.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with UUCP id WAA13443; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 22:29:15 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (marcs@localhost) by alive.znep.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA22788; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 22:29:36 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 22:29:36 -0700 (MST) From: Marc Slemko To: softweyr@xmission.com cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Support for secure http protocols In-Reply-To: <34973506.B112548D@xmission.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Wes Peters wrote: > FreeBies and Gentlehackers, > > I've been working on a project to provide an essential service for FreeBSD > users via a web/http interface. (No, I'm not ready to discuss it yet, I > don't have time to answer 5,000 questions about "why don't you do it this > ways"). Suffice it to say that several of you will be interested in it. > Now, for the meat of the question. SSL is the only thing to use currently for a wide support of clients. Note that you have licensing issues in the US (ie. can't implement SSLv2 without license from RSA or using RSAREF, which can only be used for noncommercial purposes) and export restrictions.