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|    Alexey Fayans to Michiel van der Vlist    |
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|    17 Dec 19 15:31:28    |
      MSGID: 2:5030/1997@fidonet 5df8cc59       REPLY: 2:280/5555 5df8bb4a       CHRS: CP866 2       TZUTC: 0300       TID: FastEcho 1.46.1 43272       Hello Michiel!              On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 at 12:19 +0100, you wrote to me:               AF>> Self-signed certificate means no security, unless you publish        AF>> your CA pubkey somewhere and client verifies it.               MV> Even if one publishes the pub key somewhere. It is still like:               MV> I, Michiel van der Vlist - self appointed Certified Authority - hereby        MV> declare that when Michiel van der Vlist claims to be Michiel van der        MV> Vlist, he is telling the truth. For verifications, download my public        MV> key from my website: www.vlist.eu/pubkey.               MV> A self signed certificate is usefull for testing the setup in the lab.        MV> For real use in the big bad world it is useless.              I mean something different. For example, if it would be somehow possible to       store CA pubkey in the nodelist, it could work.              Or we could have a global FIDONET CA. :)                     ... Music Station BBS | https://bbs.bsrealm.net | telnet://bbs.bsrealm.net       --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20180707        * Origin: Music Station | https://ms.bsrealm.net (2:5030/1997)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 50/109 90/1 103/705 154/10 203/0 221/0 6 227/114 229/101       SEEN-BY: 229/200 354 426 1014 240/5832 249/307 317 280/464 5003 5555       SEEN-BY: 292/854 310/31 342/200 396/45 423/120 451/30 452/166 463/68       SEEN-BY: 469/122 712/848 770/1 2452/250 5000/111 5001/100 5005/49       SEEN-BY: 5015/255 5019/40 42 5020/290 329 715 806 828 846 848 921       SEEN-BY: 5020/1042 1519 2047 2140 4441 12000 5022/128 5023/12 24 5030/1081       SEEN-BY: 5030/1900 1997 5034/13 5053/54 57 58 5054/8 5057/19 5060/900       SEEN-BY: 5064/56 5080/68 102 5083/444       PATH: 5030/1997 5023/24 5020/715 4441 1042 280/5555 464 229/426           |
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