Re: first SSL attempt in CVS!

Here's a quick start to Telnet-SSL from the people at Mochasoft:
http://www.mochasoft.dk/ssl.html

(The work that I did gives tn5250 the same SSL capabilities that the
Mochasoft emulator has.)

Or, here's the same basic thing from IBM (click on "Telnet and SSL"):
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/v4r5/ic2924/info/RZAIWGETSTART.HTM

Just FYI: Both of these sources will tell you that you need to install
(among other things) the Cryptographic Access Provider (5769-ACx)  which
did _not_ ship with OS/400 (at least, at V4R5) however, when I ordered it
I found out that it was actually a free-of-charge item. :)


On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Martin Rowe wrote:

> On Wednesday 26 September 2001 9:23 am, Scott Klement wrote:
> > Hi...
> >
> > I added support for using the OpenSSL library in tn5250.  It's now in
> > CVS for the HEAD (0.17.x) branch.
> >
> > Please try it out, as I've only tested it on FreeBSD at this stage.
> >
> > it requires:
> >   1) Your AS/400 must already be set up to receive telnet-ssl connections.
> >   2) You must already have OpenSSL installed on your Linux/BSD box.
> >   3) after checking out from CVS, you must re-run ./autogen.sh,
> >           ./configure, make, etc.   (make distclean first if this is
> >           after a 'cvs update')
>
> Scott
>
> I know very little about ssl, so where's the best place to read up on what's
> required to get this working. I've fallen at the first hurdle, as I don't
> know how to ssl-telnet enable the AS/400. I'm interested not just from a work
> point of view, but it would be nice to get a secure connection to NetShare400
> (assuming John Ross could get the necessary done at his end of the line).
>
> Regards, Martin
>