26 Feb 16 13:14, you wrote to me:   
      
    PH> [snip - examples]   
      
    PH> Thanks :) Very detailed and looks good for those tools. I'm trying to   
    PH> figure out a way to do something similar with Mystic   
      
   until/unless g00r00 codes something to handle it, the only way i know of would   
   be a MPL script if MPL can be used to gain access to an external editor OR   
   export a written message so that it might be signed or encrypted... looking at   
   history, the only way this stuff was done was completely external to the   
   bbs... either as described with the sysop editor stuffs or via some sort of   
   offline mail thing like QWK or BW which would use similar BAT files and   
   definitely an external editor instead of their built in one...   
      
    PH> but at this stage I am unsure how I could write something on the fly   
    PH> and have it posted encoded or read something encoded as decoded on the   
    PH> fly. It seems I could use the mutil tool to post a manually created   
    PH> encoded text file with ease to a jam base and I guess I can manually   
    PH> export a message from a jam base to a text file then manually decode   
    PH> it.. it's just all rather labour intensive. :(   
      
   figuring it out and getting it codified is the hard part... once that's done,   
   it is easy peazy...   
      
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    ml>> then there's signing a message instead of encrypting it... signing   
    ml>> wraps the message and places a digital signature at the bottom...   
    ml>> others use your public key to verify that you really did sign the   
    ml>> message *and* that it hasn't been altered in transit... signing is   
    ml>> very common and generally seen in message posting areas... encrypted   
    ml>> stuff may be used more in private transactions, though... i'm not   
    ml>> sure there is a metric for counting those...   
      
    PH> OK, I will need to look at the tool I have downloaded to see how I   
    PH> could do that, although I am more interested in doing encrypted stuff   
    PH> using an othernet to test things out as I realise Fidonet policy is   
    PH> not really an enabler of wholesale encrypted traffic :)   
      
   back in the day, most things were simply signed to try to show that they were   
   written by the signee... it is all too easy enough to spoof another's address,   
   name and writing style... encryption has been used in fidonet in several ways   
   over the years... at least that which some thought to be encryption and could   
   easily have been... do you remember ever getting text encoded binaries? ;)   
      
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    ml>> PGP Fingerprint 0xB60C20C5   
      
    PH> When I get something sorted over the weekend I will post the same here.   
      
   i forget if this echo is the discussion or the key sharing echo... i didn't   
   even pay attention when i first responded... there's two echos in fidonet for   
   public key stuffs...   
      
    PH> Did you get the netmail I sent you?   
      
   i don't know... i haven't looked at the main machine today if that's where you   
   sent it... i haven't seen anything here at this address...   
      
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