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. :-)

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