Re: Netnews: The Origin Story

Sn!pe <snipeco.2@gmail.com> wrote:

D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

This is a good point! But you are not worried about the essentially
unencrypted nature of usenet?

 
AFAIAC Usenet is for chat and technical discussion -- there's no need to
encrypt that.

Agreed. But many news servers and clients do support encrypted
connections, mercifully without forcing everyone to use them all
the time like with HTTPS on the Web. So it's there if you want it.

The paper talked about the designer's consideration of using
cryptography for authenticating users posting or deleting Usenet
posts, so maybe that's what "D" is talking about.

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