Subj : Re: Long Day
To   : boraxman
From : tenser
Date : Wed Jan 26 2022 03:22:02

On 25 Jan 2022 at 10:40p, boraxman pondered and said...
 
 bo> I suppose Mystic is dependent on the crypto library it uses.  But access
 bo> is done by SSH, and SSH IS secure. 

Access to Matrix from e.g. Element is via TLS-protected connections,
which is similarly secure, if not more so because one uses certificate
authentication and those certs are signed, unlike the n^2 key
distribution problem of SSH, no?

But I was referring to the implementation of mystic itself.  The access
method is one facet, sure, but if there are bugs in the program itself,
it doesn't much matter.

 bo> A timesharing Unix machine is
 bo> interesting, I have used public access Unixes which comprise the
 bo> "Smolnet".  Exposing children to Unix and how to use it is worthwhile,
 bo> but I think if they just want to message and chat, it should be through
 bo> a program designed to do just that.

Your choice, of course, but I think exposing them to the more general
tool is useful in itself.

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