Subj : Re: Is binkp/d's security model kaputt?
To : Avon
From : tenser
Date : Thu Sep 09 2021 02:13 am
On 04 Sep 2021 at 07:55p, Avon pondered and said...
Av> te> I thought about these problems a bit when I wrote ginko, and became
Av> te> convinced that the real solution was to serve legacy systems at the
Av> te> edge. For backbones and hubs, use new formats with a standard
Av> te> canonicalization and checksumming for duplicate detection and article
Av> te> identification, but only translate to/from legacy formats when
Av> te> communication with legacy software.
Av>
Av> I recall you working on Ginko and we doing some tests some years back to
Av> get compatibility with legacy FTN stuff :) I agree with your comments
Av> above.
Yeah, I think that was about a year and a half ago, but then
the pandemic kicked off and I haven't had a chance to get back
to it. The intent is to import FTN messages into an NNTP
server (and back). It just requires that most precious of
commodities: time. :-)
