Michel Arboi wrote:

...


> So we switched to a standard crypto layer: SSL/TLS.
> 
> So far so good.
> 
> I can now claim that we reached our goal: 90% of the traffic on this
> mailing list is NOW related to problems like "Server does not use NTP
> xxx or is TCP wrapped".
> 
> Great <grin>
> 
> I will say it once more: PEKS is incompatible with TLS and TLS is
> incompatible with PEKS.
> 
> <sigh>
> 
> So if you want to connect to a 1.2 nessusd server, you have to use a
> 1.2 nessus client. Or a recent NessusWX client.
> Old or obsolete or unmaintained or not yet updated clients do _not_
> speak SSL. 
> More: old 1.1.x clients (but not so old) used SSLv3 instead of TLSv1.
> 
> The only thing that 1.0.x and 1.2.x have in common are... surprise
> surprise... clear text communications!
...


Ok, while on the subject, is there any documentation on how to 
accomplish this secure communication ? I had been using nessusd on the 
same laptop as the client, so opted for quick-n-dirty cleartext, but now 
I need to set up an alternate server on a remote machine and would 
prefer to protect communications. Perhaps I missed it, but I couldn't 
find any clear indication on how to do this on 1.2.0.

Thanks,

J. Courcoul

Reply via email to