Subj : Re: Long Day
To   : boraxman
From : Avon
Date : Sun Jan 23 2022 16:49:20

On 20 Jan 2022 at 11:50p, boraxman pondered and said...
 
 bo> Greetings!  I've just come back from holiday myself!  I was able to
 bo> browse this BSS using Putty on my old Blackberry style Nokia, though
 bo> without CP437 support, or being able to get screen dimensions of 80x25,
 bo> things came through garbled.
 bo> 
 bo> On top of that, I had to SSH to my Raspberry Pi at home then telnet from
 bo> there to a BBS.

golly, well you win a prize for perseverance and the journey to get here :)

 bo> Yes, even though I was on a break, I need to keep my mind active and one
 bo> project is learning if it is possible set up "private" nets like this,
 bo> which can be for closed groups, encrypted.  Learning how all this works
 bo> has been difficult due to the lack of material out there.
 
I wouldn't say this one is 'private' in any real sense but it's certainly possible to set up FTN networks such as this, and encryption / security has been an interest of mine for some time also.

I'm not a security expert but when the subject as come up before, those who know way more about it then I often talk about where lines of 'secure' comms can be enforced etc. 

I've always like the idea of secure encrypted FTN networks, but the devil is in the implementation details it seems.

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