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Mirror ports -- an abstract counter proposal

From: Dennis Glatting <dennis.glatting@plaintalk.bellevue.wa.us>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 97 17:29:46 -0800
Message-Id: <199702110129.RAA13315@imo.plaintalk.bellevue.wa.us>
To: ietf-tls@w3.org 

How about this as an abstract counter proposal to some of the
mirror ports.

Take the concepts of inetd and SOCKS and mix them together.
Reserve a single port requiring TLS. When a client connects to
the port the inetd/SOCKS/TLS daemon tests the connection
against a policy database. If policy permits, fork and exec.

Not only have added TLS to telnet, POP, and others not
mentioned, such as rcp and rlogin, but we now have a general
purpose protocol.


-dpg
Received on Monday, 10 February 1997 20:29:52 EST

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