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|    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        * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)       SEEN-BY: 1/19 123 15/0 16/0 19/10 37 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 123/130       SEEN-BY: 123/131 124/5016 129/305 142/104 153/757 7715 154/10 203/0       SEEN-BY: 221/0 1 6 360 226/30 227/114 229/110 112 113 200 206 275       SEEN-BY: 229/307 317 400 426 428 470 550 664 700 230/0 240/1120 5832       SEEN-BY: 266/512 280/464 5003 282/1038 291/111 292/854 301/1 310/31       SEEN-BY: 317/3 320/119 219 319 2119 322/0 757 341/66 234 342/200 396/45       SEEN-BY: 423/81 120 460/16 58 256 1124 633/280 712/848 770/1 5054/30       PATH: 229/426 460/58 280/464 221/1 320/219 229/426           |
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