Subject: Re: Air Gap & News

From: Sergey Matveev <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 13:52:06 +0300

*** William Hay [2020-12-27 10:12]:
>The default behavior for Taylor
>uucico (literally what happens if you invoke it without any arguments)
>is to start in server mode without any AUTHN (no login prompt,no password
>prompt).

That is right. So agreed that actually no authentication is done at all
that way, just identification. But anyway there is no way to securely
authenticate UUCP without external tools (except for physically secure
or isolated links of course). UUCP was written before any cryptography
started to be used on ordinary computers :-)

>Exactly where to draw the line between built in and external
>tools is a matter of personal taste and what tradeoffs you want to make.

Agreed. And I think it is even funny that personally I am the fan
"Unix-way", DJB's simple approaches, its daemontools, redo and similar,
but NNCP is far away from being Unix-way utility, containing even files
splitting, tar-ing and even compression builtin. Tradeoffs are everywhere.

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