IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> Re: ADM - Draft minutes [client security issues]

Re: IPP> Re: ADM - Draft minutes [client security issues]

Jay Martin (jkm@underscore.com)
Fri, 19 Dec 1997 11:59:39 -0500

Carl-Uno,

> Well,
>
> It seems that Harald has a more liberal view on this than Keith. This seems
> to open up the possibility to to recommend that all clients SHOULD support
> TLS, but not make it an absolute MUST.
>
> Comments?

One question I have has to do with the implementation complexity
of adding TLS support to a client. (I have no experience in TLS
at all, neither the protocol nor the implementation.)

Is it difficult? Is there a public domain (ie, free) implementation
of TLS that can be leveraged to provide TLS support in a client?

If it's free (or very, very cheap) and it's easy to integrate,
then I would be quite willing to get behind mandatory TLS support
in IPP clients.

...jay

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