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echo: fidonews
to: ALAN IANSON
from: OLI
date: 2019-11-19 01:28:00
subject: Iand alternaernative tran

"Alan Ianson -> Oli"  wrote:

 AI> I wonder generaly if binkp over SSL/TLS would be good thing or if the
 AI> current way binkp works is good enough. Binkd and BinkIT (and possibly
 AI> others) support the CRYPT option. Is that enough?

That depends on your requirements. If you take encryption seriously, you need
something better than CRYPT. TLS encrypts the full session from start to end.
With CRYPT only the file transfers are encrypted, the system info is still
transmitted in cleartext. I believe CRYPT only works, if both nodes have a
session password configured. I need to check that ...

 Ol>> If you want to test it (TLS or Tor) we can discuss it in
 Ol>> FSX_CRY and/or BINKD. Just start a thread there, I read both
 Ol>> areas.

 AI> I don't mind testing either, but as I say I don't know either so you
 AI> would need to bring me up to speed.

No problem :)

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