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|    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.              --- FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815        * Origin: FMail development HQ (2:280/464)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 103/705 154/10 203/0 221/0 227/114 229/101 200       SEEN-BY: 229/354 426 1014 240/5832 249/307 317 280/464 5003 5555 292/854       SEEN-BY: 310/31 342/200 396/45 423/120 712/848 770/1 2452/250       PATH: 280/464 229/426           |
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