[cups.general] Securing IPP traffic

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Fri Feb 6 06:25:40 PST 2009


none wrote:
> ...
> Has anybody attempted such work?

Yes, and in general it works; the main issue is that we don't
validate or revoke certificates so man-in-the-middle attacks are
possible.  See:

     http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/security.html

> Any suggestions for printers / embedded print servers which support 
> encrypted IPP?

I've seen a few non-production laser printers recently start
supporting encryption.  I have a Brother MFC-9840 at home that does,
and I'm pretty sure all of Brother's current network laser printers
support encryption as well.  I've also heard that Ricoh and Xerox
have some that do SSL/TLS, although I've not played with it.

Axis has several "professional" print servers (the 5000 series) that
support SSL and TLS for printing via parallel/USB.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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