Subj : Re: Packet BBS?
To   : echicken
From : Bob Worm
Date : Fri Oct 04 2024 09:22 pm

  Re: Re: Packet BBS?
  By: echicken to Bob Worm on Fri Oct 04 2024 09:27:09

Hi, echicken.

 > Ideally it'd be something that could work independent of the internet, even
 > with a hardware dongle generating keys.

Oh, yeah - I totally didn't think about that.

 > This being ham radio it's just trusted that the "from" callsign in the
 > packet header belongs to the person who sent the packet. Of course that
 > makes it very easy to impersonate somebody, but it's just typical quaintness
 > for the hobby.

I suppose that works - do you then necessarily post under your callsign or does the BBS maintain a mapping from callsign to handle?

Of course, no impersonation would happen because that would be illegal :)

BobW
--- SBBSecho 3.20-Linux
 * Origin: >>> Magnum BBS <<< - bbs.magnum.uk.net (21:1/205)

.