From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: STARTTLS for erc
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2011 09:10:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvliwqgis6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3oc1ps6xv.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 23 Jun 2011 02:54:52 +0200")
> So erc could close the connection, and then restart it, now with
> STARTTLS. But ircd logins are notoriously slow, so that's
> totally icky.
A protocol where sending a password is "necessary" is basically
incompatible with STARTTLS anyway (otherwise, it's trivial to force the
password to be sent in the clear). So TLS support (which I added to
rcirc recently) seems quite sufficient for ERC.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-25 13:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-22 23:55 STARTTLS for erc Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-06-23 0:54 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-06-23 12:24 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-06-23 13:44 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-06-24 14:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-06-23 13:49 ` Julien Danjou
2011-06-25 13:10 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-06-25 17:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-06-27 1:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-06-27 10:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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