"Network News Transfer Protocol", Clive Feather, 9-Jun-05. (248806 bytes)

The Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) has been in use in the Internet for a decade and remains one of the most popular protocols (by volume) in use today. This document is a replacement for RFC 977 and officially updates the protocol specification. It clarifies some vagueness in RFC 977, includes some new base functionality, and provides a specific mechanism to add standardized extensions to NNTP.

"Using TLS with NNTP", Jeffrey Vinocur, 26-Sep-05. (31078 bytes)

This memo defines an extension to the Network News Transport Protocol (NNTP) to allow an NNTP client and server to use Transport Layer Security (TLS). The primary goal is to provide encryption for single-link confidentiality purposes, but data integrity, (optional) certificate-based peer entity authentication, and (optional) data compression are also possible.

"NNTP Extension for Authentication", Jeffrey Vinocur, 9-Aug-05. (52898 bytes)

This document defines an extension to the Network News Transport Protocol (NNTP) which allows a client to indicate an authentication mechanism to the server, perform an authentication protocol exchange, and optionally negotiate a security layer for subsequent protocol interactions during the remainder of an NNTP session. This document updates and formalizes the AUTHINFO USER/PASS authentication method specified in RFC 2980 and deprecates the AUTHINFO SIMPLE and AUTHINFO GENERIC authentication methods. Additionally, this document defines a profile of the Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) for NNTP.

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