<judufuru-ghert...@yahoo.co.jp> posted 20090202143813.45217.qm...@web4302.mail.ogk.yahoo.co.jp, excerpted below, on Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:38:13 +0900:
> My Usenet provider is "SSL enabled": it ensures that my ISP cannot scan > my download traffic. Indeed some ISPs attempt to scan traffic and > throttle usenet traffic!! > > Unfortunately, when I configure pan 0.132 to use a "secure Usenet > server", it never connects. > > How can I access an SSL-enabled Usenet server with Pan? > > Thanks for your help. Pan does not itself have a built-in encryption handler. It understands NNTP, period. However, many people have used pan to connect indirectly to a secure host using a local redirection service/proxy. I've not personally done so, so I won't attempt to get into detail I don't know, but the general idea is to setup a local proxy much like the privoxy (formerly junkbuster) proxy I use between my browser and the general Internet, to filter various unwanted junk such as ads. You run the local proxy setup to listen on a particular TCP port on localhost (127.0.0.1, normally, tho any IP in the 127/8 subnet should work on an RFC compliant networking stack), and forward any socket connections it receives to the appropriate remote server, in this case your NSP (news service provider). Where privoxy's purpose is filtering junk from web pages before displaying them in the browser, the purpose here would be to encrypt the request before forwarding to the remote, and decrypting the results as they return, before forwarding them locally to your news client, in this case pan. It's a pretty basic idea, really. Unfortunately I don't know what applications can actually be used for the encryption case. Presumably if you're familiar with SSH, you'll already know or can find out by looking in the docs. If not, google should be of help, but someone else will probably step up with the name of the app in question and some info on configuring it. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
