Subj : Re: ftelnet and personal proxy?
To   : Shurato
From : Atreyu
Date : Mon Jun 12 2023 08:50 pm

On 11 Jun 23  04:44:00, Shurato said the following to Joe Phigan:

S> Websockify.  That worked great and supported the SSL certificate.  Now
S> everything except for ftelnet itself is run internally through SSL.  I'm sur
S> people will feel a lot more comfortable now, if they care about their BBS
S> traffic being sniffed (which is rather unlikely to happen, or cause anything
S> to be concerned about if it were to occur).

This topic comes up every few years or so and sometimes ends up a wildly silly
debate on the secure-factor... for a technology never designed for it.

If someone wants to jump through hoops to get SSL working for a BBS thats
fine, but no caller I've ever encountered in 30+ years ever cared about the
encryption of the connection.

Atreyu

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