5223 SSL vs 5222 encrypted

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Fairly noobish person here trying to set up Openfire server, and I’m wondering about the difference between “old” SSL on port 5223 vs encrypted chat on port 5222.

Should I keep 5223 closed and disable SSL? Is encrypted chat better? Because I notice that all chat on 5223 is SSL, but chat on 5222 could be encrypted or not encrypted. So am I better off keeping 5222 closed and only allowing SSL chat?

Can I disable the SSL port and then make it so all chat on the regular port is encrypted; and unencrypted chat is not possible?

confused

thanks

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You can disable port 5223 - it was mentioned in https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3920 which was replaced by https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6120.

You can still force that the clients use encryption / TLS (Server Settings / Security Settings).

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