Subj : Re: Thinking of posting a code a week
To : apam,NuSkooler,bcw142
From : Avon
Date : Sun Sep 17 2017 12:54 pm
On 09/16/17, bcw142 said the following...
bc> On 09/16/17, apam said the following...
bc> ap> I've been toying with the idea for some time to add encryption to
bc> ap> Magicka, not PGP, but just ordinary key based encryption where the se
bc> ap> and receiver both know the key.
bc>
bc> This is a good place to test it. As far as not knowing if it will be
bc> used or how, there's the now 'old' build it and they will come ;) Once
bc> it exists people will figure out uses and such. Encryption is where
bc> things are going, it can be used to help weed out the hackers and
bc> cracking that is causing problems with the BBS. I'm sure ssh doesn't
bc> have as much trouble for that very reason - encryption. I know they
bc> can't make it in my ssh ports and it's much harder to do DDOS on them as
bc> well. Anything that's pretty automatic and can be made in to a new
This whole area really interests me and I set this echo up for this kind of
discussion and hopefully some development in this space.
I recall Nu in your TODO you were looking at mesh networking and had the end
to end security of communications in mind also?
I agree with comments about the irony of trying to secure comms if the poster
is logged in via a telnet session. But assuming the login is a local one on a
system sitting inside a home LAN then I guess that issue is negated.
As I understand it, the real issue becomes how to create a enviroment of
shared trust... so how does a key get exchanged in a secure way between two
parties prior to the encrypted exchanges taking place?
Apam et al.. I do hope you can further bake some options in to your platforms
as I'd be keen to help with the development of this.
Xqtr and I did so some work playing with Mystic MPL and PGP a while ago. I
just need to find all of the work again :) But the idea was to use the full
screen editor and then have the output run through PGP then posted to the
echomail area encrypted. It worked to a point but the shared key thing was
not flying as it should - does that sound right Xqtr?
