On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 02:29:45PM -0600, Richard Rauch wrote:
> One way that this could be done is to set up a local program and another
> on the same machine as the server software.  You would telnet to
> the localhost (parameter to your client software, not a change to
> it) and the local software wraps your message up in encryption and
> sends it to its counterpart on the machine where the server process
> lives.  The counterpart decrypts and does a localhost telnet.

Perhaps stunnel <http://www.stunnel.org/> will do what you want? I
haven't tried it myself, but it seems like it should work. It does
work on the client end if the server speaks SSL natively:
<http://www.fuzzball.org/node.php?id=43>
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