From: doppler (roman_at_pixell.net)
Date: Fri Nov 14 2003 - 15:32:16 PST
> Subject: Re: [NTLK] NewtChat works!
> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Eckhart_K=F6ppen?= <eck1001_at_gmx.net>
>
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 21:51:53 -0500, Donald wrote:
>> With SSL we'd have what... Secure webpages (Login over the WiFi
>> networks in TMobile locations... FREE!), SSH instead of just Telnet...
>
> Unfortunately, SSH is quite different from SSL. But it might be easier
> to do since we could live with SSH as an application level protocol,
> meaning that it is available only in certain applications such as a
> terminal emulator.
>
> A useful SSL implementation has to be however on a lower level, and
> that is much harder to sneak into the NewtonOS. It would have to be
> similar to the NIE functionality to make it available to all internet
> applications. Nitro and Blunt are examples of such system level
> protocol additions. They were relatively easy to do because that part
> is in the Newton ROM and can be reverse engineered. But NIE is a
> standalone system of packages, much harder to analyze.
does this also mean we will never see a VPN client for the newton?
roman pixell
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