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   Message 6,438 of 8,958   
   Wilfred van Velzen to Alan Ianson   
   Re: Binkd and TLS   
   14 Dec 19 00:57:16   
   
   TID: FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815   
   RFC-X-No-Archive: Yes   
   TZUTC: 0100   
   CHRS: UTF-8 2   
   PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20161221   
   MSGID: 2:280/464 5df42588   
   REPLY: 1:153/757 5df41fe7   
   Hi Alan,   
      
   On 2019-12-13 15:31:14, you wrote to me:   
      
    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...   
      
    AI> I'm not absolutely sure of all the implications. I prefer binkps for the   
    AI> same reasons I prefer https.   
      
   You can't compare binkp and http in that regard.   
      
    AI> I just polled your node over binkps and it seemed to work. :)   
      
   Thanks for testing! ;)   
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
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