Subj : Binkd and TLS
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Alan Ianson
Date : Fri Dec 13 2019 03:31 pm

Hello Wilfred,

 WV> But I don't see it's absolute usefullness. Because binkd already
 WV> encrypts (most) sessions. Only the initial connection setup is
 WV> unencrypted. But that only contains already public information. Maybe
 WV> if you live under a really surpressive regime, and you want to hide
 WV> the fact you are communicating in fidonet? Maybe it helps a bit... But
 WV> not if they take a closer look, at which IP's you communicate with all
 WV> the time...

I'm not absolutely sure of all the implications. I prefer binkps for the same
reasons I prefer https.

I just polled your node over binkps and it seemed to work. :)

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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