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|    Oli to Alexey Fayans    |
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|    07 May 20 12:34:27    |
      MSGID: 2:280/464.47 5eb3e42c       REPLY: 2:5030/1997@fidonet 5eb34264       PID: JamNNTPd/Linux 1       CHRS: LATIN-1 2       TZUTC: 0200       TID: CrashMail II/Linux 1.7       Alexey wrote (2020-05-07):               AI>> If my current certificate is not good enough then what would be and        AI>> why?               AF> You are using certificate issued by a trusted CA that matches your domain        AF> specified in nodelist, which is fine. If there would be a standard for        AF> binkps requiring INA to be present and contain a valid domain name, then        AF> mailers could verify certificates based on domain names and trusted CA,        AF> as web browsers do. But without a standard there is no security. If there        AF> will be an IP address in the INA field, how can you verify certificate        AF> validity?              and with FTS-5004 (binkp.net) it's also not really secure. we don't even have       an informal agreement how to deal with these addresses does the binkp server       have to offer a cert for it's binkp.net address? or should the binkp client       verify the certificate based on the domain the CNAME / SRV record points to?              of course it always can be treat like a self-signed cert.              ---        * Origin: (2:280/464.47)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 103/705 120/340 601 154/10 203/0 221/0 226/30       SEEN-BY: 227/114 702 229/101 200 426 664 1014 240/2100 5138 5832 5853       SEEN-BY: 240/6309 249/109 307 317 280/464 5003 5555 288/100 292/854       SEEN-BY: 292/8125 310/31 320/219 342/200 396/45 423/120 712/848 770/1       SEEN-BY: 2432/390 2452/250 2454/119       PATH: 280/464 240/5832 229/426           |
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