26 Feb 16 13:14, you wrote to me:

 PH> [snip - examples]

 PH> Thanks :) Very detailed and looks good for those tools. I'm trying to
 PH> figure out a way to do something similar with Mystic

until/unless g00r00 codes something to handle it, the only way i know of
would be a MPL script if MPL can be used to gain access to an external
editor OR export a written message so that it might be signed or
encrypted... looking at history, the only way this stuff was done was
completely external to the bbs... either as described with the sysop editor
stuffs or via some sort of offline mail thing like QWK or BW which would
use similar BAT files and definitely an external editor instead of their
built in one...

 PH> but at this stage I am unsure how I could write something on the fly
 PH> and have it posted encoded or read something encoded as decoded on the
 PH> fly. It seems I could use the mutil tool to post a manually created
 PH> encoded text file with ease to a jam base and I guess I can manually
 PH> export a message from a jam base to a text file then manually decode
 PH> it.. it's just all rather labour intensive. :(

figuring it out and getting it codified is the hard part... once that's
done, it is easy peazy...

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 ml>> then there's signing a message instead of encrypting it... signing
 ml>> wraps the message and places a digital signature at the bottom...
 ml>> others use your public key to verify that you really did sign the
 ml>> message *and* that it hasn't been altered in transit... signing is
 ml>> very common and generally seen in message posting areas... encrypted
 ml>> stuff may be used more in private transactions, though... i'm not
 ml>> sure there is a metric for counting those...

 PH> OK, I will need to look at the tool I have downloaded to see how I
 PH> could do that, although I am more interested in doing encrypted stuff
 PH> using an othernet to test things out as I realise Fidonet policy is
 PH> not really an enabler of wholesale encrypted traffic :)

back in the day, most things were simply signed to try to show that they
were written by the signee... it is all too easy enough to spoof another's
address, name and writing style... encryption has been used in fidonet in
several ways over the years... at least that which some thought to be
encryption and could easily have been... do you remember ever getting text
encoded binaries? ;)

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 ml>> PGP Fingerprint 0xB60C20C5

 PH> When I get something sorted over the weekend I will post the same here.

i forget if this echo is the discussion or the key sharing echo... i didn't
even pay attention when i first responded... there's two echos in fidonet
for public key stuffs...

 PH> Did you get the netmail I sent you?

i don't know... i haven't looked at the main machine today if that's where
you sent it... i haven't seen anything here at this address...

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