Subj : BINKP over TLS
To   : Alexey Fayans
From : Alan Ianson
Date : Tue Dec 17 2019 03:11 am

Hello Alexey,

 AF> It's not about believing.

I'm not going anywhere until I believe, in something. I don't mind having my
beliefs proven to be worthless, in fact I appreciate it if they are in fact
worthless.

 AI>> That's why STARTTLS has been depricated.

 AF> It's not deprecated globally. Deprecation is only _proposed_ for SMTP
 AF> and other mail protocols and there are reasons for that, but that
 AF> doesn't mean it is deprecated for everything else.

I have only ever used STARTTLS with smtp. If STARTTLS is proposed to be
depricated for smtp I propose we depricate it here too.

 AF> Synhcronet is not the only software out there.

No it isn't. It does have a simple to use binkps implementation that other
software could use in a similar way.

 AF> With STARTTLS none of this is a problem. Additional configuration flag
 AF> to require TLS connection is easy to implement, nodelist flag is
 AF> optional and may be used to tell client to require TLS when connecting
 AF> to supporting node, and additional DNS SRV records are not needed as
 AF> well.

I don't think STARTTLS is going to fly. I really have no strong feelings for or
 against STARTTLS, I just don't think that is what anyone wants today.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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