Subj : PGP / GPG end to end encryption on FSNs
To   : Ganiman
From : Al
Date : Sat Aug 12 2023 11:09 am

> I am mostly curious. The BBS software itself doesnt need to handle this, it
> could be done by a door/alternative message reader like Opicron's RJAM or
> something else, which is kind of the beauty of PGP/GPG. It could even be done
> manually without a "client" at all with a little copy and paste.

There is no standard for this so it hasn't been done (as far as I know).

Mystic does have the ability to encrypt netmail between nodes that have a password setup between them but when a message goes to a link without a password (which netmail likely will) the encryption is lost.

Echomail is not encrypted but it doesn't need to be.

It could work that way if there was a standard and all the software involved understood it and was capable of using it.

There is a plethora of software being used in Fido (and othernets), some of it old and unsupported so that is a challenge, probably a killer.

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