Subj : Re: Iand alternaernative transports
To : Alan Ianson
From : Paul Hayton
Date : Tue Nov 19 2019 01:36 pm
On 18 Nov 2019 at 02:09p, Alan Ianson pondered and said...
AI> AI> I don't have tor or an ON2 address, but I think it would be
AI> AI> interesting to get binkp over TLS/SSL.
AI> Ol> Even binkd has no built-in support for TLS it is possible in both
AI> Ol> directions. We already talked about it in FSX_CRY :).
AI>
AI> Yes, I remember but you mentioned tor and proxy. I don't know these
AI> things. Maybe I can put them together, I'm not sure.
AI>
AI> I wonder generaly if binkp over SSL/TLS would be good thing or if the
AI> current way binkp works is good enough. Binkd and BinkIT (and possibly
AI> others) support the CRYPT option. Is that enough?
AI>
AI> If you'd like to test this out I'd be willing. I don't know what you mean
AI> by TLS proxy so I'd need to be educated about these things before any
AI> meaningful tests could be done.. :)
AI>
AI> I don't mind testing either, but as I say I don't know either so you
AI> would need to bring me up to speed.
AI>
AI> I'd be most interested in something that can be used with the binkp
AI> protocol (if that's desirable) in all it's various uses with binkd,
AI> BinkIT and other mailers that would/could use it.
I am the same, although I have not found time to do so -yet. Will forward this
over to FSX_CRY and work with you both on this. Be good to add that flag to
a few more nodes in the nodelist.
