Re: Encrypted NNTP ???

Sorry, wrong Thread.

My Bad...


J



"Jammin Jay" <jason.senf@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:DZudnSIUNshvWAHfRVn-uA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I was wondering if any one know if Comcast allows for encrypted communications
>from Outlook express to these news servers.
> I just ran a sniffer on my internal network and captured the traffic between
> my pc and the Giga news server when I updated the headers... Not to my
> surprise I saw that when OE was connecting to Giganews, the main user account
> and password were sent out on the wire as clear text..
> I discovered this was also happening with outlook when I checked for email but
> I was able to enable SSL for the email sessions. I would like to do the same
> for these news servers..
>
> J
>


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