From: not@telling.you.invalid   
      
   Sn!pe  wrote:   
   > D  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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