Technical Summary
This document provides recommendations for improving the security of
the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) when using Transport Layer
Security (TLS). It modernizes the NNTP usage of TLS to be consistent
with TLS best current practices. If approved, this document updates
RFC 4642.
Working Group Summary
This is not a WG document, but it was reviewed on the former
NNTPEXT WG mailing list.
Document Quality
Several existing implementations already implement the cipher
recommendations from this document due to use of generic
TLS libraries.
Personnel
Document Shepherd: Michael Baeuerle <mailto:michael.baeuerle@stz-e.de>
(The "ae" in "Baeuerle" is an ASCII transcription for the umlaut U+00E4)
Responsible Area Director : Alexey Melnikov