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echo: fidosoft.husky
to: KAI RICHTER
from: MARKUS RESCHKE
date: 2015-03-14 11:36:00
subject: Unpacking insecure arcmai

Hello Kai!

Mar 14 08:07 2015, Kai Richter wrote to Tommi Koivula:

 KR> If you need that feature (toss unsec packed NM) only for that node 
 KR> you could achive that by using a hotfix dirty hack and setup 
 KR> passwords for that node for both mailer connect and packet password. 
 KR> The password system was designed to seperate between unsecure and 
 KR> secure but you can misuse it to accept unsecured NM from one special 
 KR> node.

It's common practice to send raw/unpacked netmail packets to a node you got no
link with. And this makes perfectly sense when you consider known security
issues. Some nodes simply ignore and discard packed netmail from non-links for
that reason. I thought this is all well known.

Regards,
Markus

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