encrypted printing with cups

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Wed Feb 13 09:12:48 PST 2008


Franz Pfoertsch wrote:
> Franz Pfoertsch wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>is there a small howto about encrypted printing available?
>>
>>which steps have to be solved?
>>
>>today I tried to print from a cups 1.3.2 to a Canon iR C2880 with the
>>following device uri's
>>
>>   ipp://<hostname>:631/ipp?encryption=always
>>   ipp://cobp0708:631/ipp?encryption=required
>>
>>but I only got the message "host not found".
>>
>>without the encryption option every thing works fine!
>>
>>any information are welcome.
>>
>>regards
>>Franz
> 
> I switched the device uri to 
>      ipp://<hostname>:443/ipp
> 
> and activated ssl on the Canon machine. 
> After this the machine is printing, but is it realy encrypted?
> 
> Is any experience available on this list?
> 
> regards
> Franz

If you set the loginfo to debug, the backend should tell you
if encryption takes place.

Gekge

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