PuTTY wish ssl

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summary: Support for SSL
class: wish: This is a request for an enhancement.
difficulty: taxing: Needs external things we don't have (standards, users etc)
priority: dormant: This is an old feature request that we no longer think is relevant.

There's been one request for SSL. (SSL/Telnet in particular; possibly also raw-SSL in order to talk directly to HTTPS?) Most of the SSL protocol looks reasonably sane, except for the certificates (ASN.1 and X509 and other buzzwords). If the certificate processing turns out to take too much code, SSL might not make it into the PuTTY core for size reasons - it would have to be compiled in specially, or perhaps shipped as a separate DLL.

SGT, 2024-11-17: classifying this wish as dormant. This was mostly related to SSL Telnet, which looked like a competitor to SSH in the SSH-1 days, but didn't win.

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(last revision of this bug record was at 2024-11-17 14:53:03 +0000)