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echo: binkd
to: MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
from: ALEXEY FAYANS
date: 2019-12-17 15:28:00
subject: Binkd and TLS

Hello Michiel!

On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 at 12:19 +0100, you wrote to me:

 AF>> Self-signed certificate means no security, unless you publish
 AF>> your CA pubkey somewhere and client verifies it.

 MV> Even if one publishes the pub key somewhere. It is still like:

 MV> I, Michiel van der Vlist - self appointed Certified Authority - hereby
 MV> declare that when Michiel van der Vlist claims to be Michiel van der
 MV> Vlist, he is telling the truth. For verifications, download my public
 MV> key from my website: www.vlist.eu/pubkey.

 MV> A self signed certificate is usefull for testing the setup in the lab.
 MV> For real use in the big bad world it is useless.

I mean something different. For example, if it would be somehow possible to
store CA pubkey in the nodelist, it could work.

Or we could have a global FIDONET CA. :)


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