Board:   [WWIVnet] WWIV Development
Subject: Re: WWIVnet Main Type 1
From:    Rushfan #1 @513
To:      apam #10 @127
Date:    Thu Oct 24, 2024 11:01

a> up until now i just ignore those messages. Now I am thinking maybe I
a> should do something with them..

We process them, and I believe that netup sends them.  This is how updated
wwivnet files show up for people once mark pushes them out (we don't tell
people to pull fro github, but keep them there for archival purposes).

One of the nice things from wwivnet for ever was that you didn't need to have
the batchfile setup like with ftn networks to process nodelists, etc.

https://github.com/wwivbbs/wwiv/blob/5d9bef30e0772f3ce0349b78b3245c8aad9306f6/ne
twork2/network2.cpp#L217 is the code


a> is de1.exe still used (or some variation of it) to verify messages?

No, we skip over the check currently. the custom RSA library for DOS isn't
standard so wasn't replacable with a normal hmac or other modern pki library.
At this stage in the life of a BBS,I didn't think it's useful.

Could always go back and replace it with a modern integrity check if needed
that's open source, just haven't done it.

rushfan
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