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echo: fidonews
to: ALAN IANSON
from: PAUL HAYTON
date: 2019-11-19 13:23:00
subject: Re: Iand alternaernative

On 18 Nov 2019 at 02:09p, Alan Ianson pondered and said...
 
 AI>  AI> I don't have tor or an ON2 address, but I think it would be
 AI>  AI> interesting to get binkp over TLS/SSL.
 AI>  Ol> Even binkd has no built-in support for TLS it is possible in both
 AI>  Ol> directions.  We already talked about it in FSX_CRY :).
 AI> 
 AI> Yes, I remember but you mentioned tor and proxy. I don't know these
 AI> things. Maybe I can put them together, I'm not sure.
 AI> 
 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?
 AI> 
 AI> If you'd like to test this out I'd be willing. I don't know what you mean
 AI> by TLS proxy so I'd need to be educated about these things before any
 AI> meaningful tests could be done.. :)
 AI> 
 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.
 AI> 
 AI> I'd be most interested in something that can be used with the binkp
 AI> protocol (if that's desirable) in all it's various uses with binkd,
 AI> BinkIT and other mailers that would/could use it.

I am the same, although I have not found time to do so -yet. Will forward this
over to FSX_CRY and work with you both on this. Be good to add that flag to
a few more nodes in the nodelist.

Best, Paul

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