Subj : RE: Thinking of posting a code a week
To   : Richard Menedetter
From : apam
Date : Sun Sep 24 2017 08:49 am

 R> Why not GPG/PGP? They already exist, have been peer reviewed security 
 R> wise and have key distribution in place. What do you gain by inventing th
 R> wheel again (just worse). (Read Phil Zimmermanns comments about his first
 R> try, and then reading it as an

I didn't plan on 'reinventing the wheel' just using a key based
algorithm instead of PGP. The reason for not using PGP is the users key
would have to be stored on the BBS, and the sysop would have access to
them, regardless of how buggy modern bbses are, this is a problem.

 R> I do not really see the usecase. Regarding one of the follow up replies, 
 R> I am shocked that anybody uses telnet any more in 2017 ... As long as tha
 R> is the case, forget encryption and work on eradicating that failure of 
 R> history

Magicka supports SSH.

Andrew


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