Will the Secure Sockets Library work for a telnet connection ? We have a TN3270 and TN5250 telnet client that needs to connect to IBM Mainframes computers using SSL.

thank you

The Security Library implements the SSL3 and TLS1 protocols according to the official standards. So if your server adheres to the standard, everything should work fine.

However telnet sessions are usually secured with SSH instead of SSL; this protocol is not (yet) supported by the library.

Pieter,

thanks ! In my case the servers are IBM Mainframe and Midrange computers and they are SSL using the RSA/MD4 protocols. When I get a test bed set up, I'll try it and post back

MD4? Neither the SSL3 or TLS1 standard specify MD4 as a hash algorithm [and consequently, our SSL library doesn't support MD4 as a hash algorithm]. Are you sure it's not MD5?