Tom, check this out - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKEzX70moOQ
I also got 200 hits for 'AT-TLS' after logging in to share.org; you might want to do the same to see which of those are the most useful to you. - KB ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Tuesday, June 30, 2020 10:27 PM, Tom Brennan <[email protected]> wrote: > I've tried to skim some of the AT-TLS doc, and even attended an IBM > webinar last week, but I'm still missing what I imagine are important > background points. Maybe someone here can explain things, but don't > worry too much about it. > > Client and server programs like SSH/SSHD call programs such as OpenSSL > to handle the encryption handshake and processing. So when you set > those up, there is no AT-TLS needed for encryption. Same with the > TN3270 server and client, as long as you set that up with keys and > parameters on the host side, and settings on the client side. > > I'm thinking because of the name "Application Transparent" that AT-TLS > was made for programs that DON'T have their own logic to call OpenSSL > (or whatever) to do their own encryption. Let's use clear-text FTP as > an example. So somehow, AT-TLS hooks into the processing and provides > an encrypted "tunnel", kind of like VPN does, but only for that one > application. Does that sound correct? > > If so, then the encryption is "transparent" to the FTP server code and > FTP does not need to be changed, which I think is the whole idea here. > Yet we now have an encrypted session. Does that sound correct? > > Then if so, what happens on the FTP client side? I certainly can't use > the Windows FTP command, for example, because it's not setup for any > kind of encryption. That's kind of my big question here. > > On 6/30/2020 1:44 AM, Lionel B Dyck wrote: > > > Sweet - thank you > > Lionel B. Dyck <sdg>< > > Website: https://www.lbdsoftware.com > > "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what > > you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [email protected] On Behalf Of > > kekronbekron > > Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 2:34 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: AT-TLS ? > > Hi LBD!, > > Check these out- > > http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/PRS5416 > > http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/PRS5415 > > http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/PRS5414 > > > > - KB > > > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > On Monday, June 29, 2020 3:56 AM, Lionel B Dyck [email protected] wrote: > > > > > Anyone have any pointers for configuring AT-TLS on z/OS? > > > Lionel B. Dyck <sdg>< > > > Website: https://www.lbdsoftware.com https://www.lbdsoftware.com > > > "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is > > > what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John > > > Wooden > > > > > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > > to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > -- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
