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|    ATREYU to Shurato    |
|    Re: ftelnet and personal proxy?    |
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      MSGID: 1:229/426 8C51E1E3       REPLY: 1:340/1101 012c2848       On 11 Jun 23 04:44:00, Shurato said the following to Joe Phigan:              S> Websockify. That worked great and supported the SSL certificate. Now       S> everything except for ftelnet itself is run internally through SSL. I'm sur       S> people will feel a lot more comfortable now, if they care about their BBS       S> traffic being sniffed (which is rather unlikely to happen, or cause anything       S> to be concerned about if it were to occur).              This topic comes up every few years or so and sometimes ends up a wildly silly       debate on the secure-factor... for a technology never designed for it.              If someone wants to jump through hoops to get SSL working for a BBS thats       fine, but no caller I've ever encountered in 30+ years ever cared about the       encryption of the connection.              Atreyu              --- Renegade vY2Ka2        * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)    |
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