[TUHS] seismo/uunet uucp

Grant Taylor via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Wed Jul 3 03:28:35 AEST 2024


On 7/2/24 12:16 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) wrote:
> Yup.  It's just wrapping the connection with TLS, ala https vs http. 
> People have been doing it for decades (e.g. suucp in more tha a few 
> /etc/services files).  With HDB you can arrange this by doing some 
> contortions in the Dialers file that make it call out to 'openssl 
> s_client ...' IIRC.  It has been a looong time ...

Does the UUCP that you're working with have any concept of -> support 
TCP based connections?  Or are you relying on external programs to dial 
TCP / TLS connections and similarly something else to host TCP / TLS 
connections and launch UUCP?



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Grant. . . .
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