Re: Ialternaernaernative transports
  By: Alan Ianson to Rob Swindell on Fri Dec 13 2019 03:45 pm

 > Hello Rob,
 >
 >  >> I did receive it and replied. Both over TLS if I'm not mistaken. :)
 >
 >  RS> Cool. That might be a FidoNet-first! :-)
 >
 > Yep.. I have tested with a few nodes at this point and all seems to work
 > well. It's simple, easy and painless to do with Synchronet/BinkIT.
 >
 > Thanks for your work on that.. :)

No problem. Credit to Stephen Hurd for making the TLS support for Synchronet
services and JS modules so easy.

I also just committed recently a patch to retain the BinkpTLS port value when
using echocfg to edit the sbbsecho.ini file.

 > I'm about to try linking up my Synchronet with it's boss node running binkd.
 > I haven't done that yet but I see others have so I'll see if I can follow
 > their examples.

Cool. Next steps are probably to define (or get IANA to assign) an "official"
binkps TCP port number. And then maybe a nodelist flag should be defined so
nodes supporting binkps (instead-of or in-addition-to binkp) can be
automatically identified.

                                            digital man

Synchronet/BBS Terminology Definition #69:
SSL = Secure Sockets Layer (precursor to TLS)
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