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|    Michiel van der Vlist to Wilfred van Velzen    |
|    Binkd and TLS    |
|    14 Dec 19 00:44:32    |
      TID: FMail-W32 2.1.3.7-B20170919       RFC-X-No-Archive: Yes       TZUTC: 0100       CHRS: CP850 2       MSGID: 2:280/5555 5df423be       REPLY: 2:280/464 5df4133d       Hello Wilfred,              On Friday December 13 2019 23:31, you wrote to Oli:               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...              It may even have an adverse effect. IMHO for us small fish the best defence       against a hostile regime is to stay below the radar. Refrain from being an       interesting target, so they don't take that closer look. Using TLS may draw       their attention....              Cheers, Michiel              --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20170303        * Origin: http://www.vlist.eu (2:280/5555)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 103/705 154/10 203/0 221/0 6 227/114 229/101 200       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 5019/40       SEEN-BY: 5020/1042 5053/58       PATH: 280/5555 464 229/426           |
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