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   Message 224 of 274   
   Atreyu to Shurato   
   Re: ftelnet and personal proxy?   
   12 Jun 23 20:50:36   
   
   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   
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