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|    August Abolins to Wilfred van Velzen    |
|    enc + netmail    |
|    05 Jan 20 17:46:25    |
      MSGID: 2:221/360.0 5e1204cc       REPLY: 2:280/464 5e11d0db       PID: JamNNTPd/OS2 1.3 20191208       TID: GE/2 1.2       CHRS: IBMPC 2       TZUTC: 0200       On 1/5/2020 7:03 AM, between "Wilfred van Velzen : August Abolins":               AA>> Next to being able to sign messages in echomail/newsgroups,        AA>> fully encrypted messages only make sense in email - direct        AA>> to a specific individual.               WvV> Or routed netmail!              But we really don't know the exact route a netmail will take.              For a user, unless they analyze the nodelist or confirm things with       their sysop, netmail is unreliable.              I also use point-software (OpenXP) which allows sending crash mail. With       that, I could crash my encrypted netmail to its final destination with       confidence to any system that flies the U,ENC flags.                      AA>> That's the beauty of pulling down the keys and checking        AA>> their properties. The properties will reveal creation        AA>> dates, expiry dates, revocations, etc. It would be        AA>> relatively easy to just pick the most recent date, and send        AA>> a brief hello message with a CC: and see which ones reach        AA>> their target.               WvV> If there are multiple keys to choose from...              Yeah, tracking people down from the past that have only one email addy       listed on the servers with an expired key could be a challenge.               ../|ug              --- Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228)        * Origin: nntp://rbb.fidonet.fi - Lake Ylo - Finland (2:221/360.0)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 19/10 90/1 154/10 203/0 221/0 1 6 360 227/114 229/426       SEEN-BY: 229/1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 280/464 5003 292/854 310/31       SEEN-BY: 317/3 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/81 120 712/848 770/1 2452/250       PATH: 221/360 1 280/464 229/426           |
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