Board:   [fsxNet] Mystic BBS discussion/support
Subject: Re: SSH down @ 2oFB - Mystic, but why?
From:    Accession(21:1/200)
Date:    Fri Oct 16, 2026 22:07

Hey paulie420!

On Fri, Oct 16 2026 20:30:54 -0700, you wrote:

 p> Hmmmmmm... maybe? I *am* using a pre-compiled cryptlib b/c of an old
 p> Ubuntu issue a couple years ago w/ compiling cryptlib under Ubuntu...
 p> maybe I'll poke around there first.

I think you're using a precompiled cryptlib because Mystic doesn't support anything higher than that. ;(

 Ac>> If g00r00 isn't coming back, you may have to do some workarounds,
 Ac>> because at some point it may completely stop working. Unfortunately, it
 Ac>> most likely won't be just you that is affected by this. ;(

 p> We've been doing that for years. If I had it to do all over again, of
 p> course I'd go w/ Synchronet - but HEAVILY modify it from the ground up, at
 p> the code level - but I don't have that luxury. I sure wish g00 would FOSS
 p> Mystic so we could make it AWESOME. At this point, its kinda like... cmon,
 p> dude.

I wasn't saying to move away from Mystic. I'm just saying you may need to use a different ssh server, and have it load up Mystic upon login. It would have been nice if he would have implemented it that way, instead of just saying "grab cryptlib version 'x', and it'll work. Well, what happens when cryptlib updates 100 times and starts dropping support for certain cipers due to vulnerabilities?

Regards,
Accession

.... I'm sarcastic, what's your superpower?
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