Miron Cuperman says:
Let's talk less and do more. :)
How about adding encryption to kermit and iScreen so that they may talk to each other in a secure manner? I am proposing these two programs because they are widely portable. kermit works on most Unix and MSDOS systems. iScreen works on most Unix systems.
(Note that this would solve the network/modem eavesdropping problem, but not the untrusted remote system problem. The latter has no solution in my opinion. You just have to trust the sysadmin.)
I propose writing a link encryption library which could be usable in other comm and BBS programs.
A good idea, but getting the protocol right is hard -- you don't want to put any real overhead on the line, but you also want to do error detection and resychronization so that your cypher will run properly. Discussing a proposal for a line protocol that has these features would, of course, be germane to the list. Perry