Just a sample of the Echomail archive
Cooperative anarchy at its finest, still active today. Darkrealms is the Zone 1 Hub.
|    BINKD    |    Support for the Internet BinKD mailer    |    8,958 messages    |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
|    Message 6,436 of 8,958    |
|    Alan Ianson to Wilfred van Velzen    |
|    Binkd and TLS    |
|    13 Dec 19 15:31:14    |
      REPLY: 2:280/464 5df4133d       MSGID: 1:153/757 5df41fe7       CHRS: UTF-8 2       TZUTC: -0800       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 2019-12-05       Hello Wilfred,               WV> But I don't see it's absolute usefullness. Because binkd already        WV> encrypts (most) sessions. Only the initial connection setup is        WV> unencrypted. But that only contains already public information. Maybe        WV> if you live under a really surpressive regime, and you want to hide        WV> the fact you are communicating in fidonet? Maybe it helps a bit... But        WV> not if they take a closer look, at which IP's you communicate with all        WV> the time...              I'm not absolutely sure of all the implications. I prefer binkps for the same       reasons I prefer https.              I just polled your node over binkps and it seemed to work. :)               Ttyl :-),        Al              --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707        * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 57/0 90/1 103/705 153/250 154/10 203/0 220/70 221/0       SEEN-BY: 227/114 229/101 200 354 426 1014 240/5832 249/307 317 267/800       SEEN-BY: 280/464 5003 5555 292/854 310/31 317/3 342/200 396/45 423/120       SEEN-BY: 712/848 770/0 1 100 340 772/0 1 210 500 2452/250       PATH: 153/757 250 770/1 280/464 229/426           |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
(c) 1994, bbs@darkrealms.ca