Mirror ports -- an abstract counter proposal

[Dennis Glatting <dennis.glatting@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How about this as an abstract counter proposal to some of the
mirror ports.

Take the concepts of inetd and SOCKS and mix them together.
Reserve a single port requiring TLS. When a client connects to
the port the inetd/SOCKS/TLS daemon tests the connection
against a policy database. If policy permits, fork and exec.

Not only have added TLS to telnet, POP, and others not
mentioned, such as rcp and rlogin, but we now have a general
purpose protocol.


-dpg