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echo: binkd
to: ALEXEY FAYANS
from: MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
date: 2019-12-17 14:33:00
subject: Binkd and TLS

Hello Alexey,

On Tuesday December 17 2019 15:31, you wrote to me:

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

That would mean a significant redesign of the format of the nodelist. WHich
would make a lot of nodelist processing sofware go in a flat spin. I am not
sure we should go that way...

 AF> Or we could have a global FIDONET CA. :)

Experience with previous "centralised authority" in Fidonet tells me this is a
bad idea. Can you say "echolist"?

If I have to choose between the two evils of a centralised authority within
Fidonet or one outside Fidonet, I'd pefer the latter. At last the latter
presumably has no interest in playing fidonet politcal games.


Cheers, Michiel

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