Subj : Re: Re^4: Directly include binary data in messages
To : Tim Schattkowsky
From : James Coyle
Date : Thu Feb 24 2022 12:01 pm
TS> For private messages, there is little sense in competing with email.
TS> Surely fidonet netmail is not going to replace email during the next 5
TS> years. However, it makes a lot of sense to provide comparable
TS> capabilities just to enable users to make consistent use of netmail and
TS> echomail while having basic capabilities that are just not worse than
TS> email 20 years ago. Currently thats not remotely the case.
We do have some additional security being used today, some of which could be refined and adopted. Between you, Rob, and I we have a substancial user base that gives us the power to create positive change.
Synchronet and Mystic support direct BINKP over SSL natively which is a good start to securing transmission. At one point I had a opportunistic SSL version of BinkP as well.
Of course SSL doesn't stop routed netmail from being read by a SysOp in the middle though, so in this case Mystic does AES-256 encrypted netmail if its setup with an encryption key for the address being netmailed.
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