(because it is also store-and-forward solution).
@multitable @columnfractions 0.40 0.15 0.15 0.15 0.15
-@headitem @tab UUCP @tab FTN @tab NNCP @tab SMTP
+@headitem @tab UUCP @tab FTN @tab NNCP @tab SMTP
@item Ease of setup @tab Medium @tab Hard @tab Easy @tab Hard
@item Mail transmission @tab @strong{Yes} @tab @strong{Yes} @tab @strong{Yes} @tab @strong{Yes}
@item News transmission @tab @strong{Yes} @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No @tab No
@item File transmission @tab @strong{Yes} @tab @strong{Yes} @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No
-@item Remote command execution @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No @tab No @tab No
+@item Chunked files @tab No @tab @strong{Yes} @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No
+@item Remote command execution @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No
@item Resumable downloads @tab @strong{Yes} @tab @strong{Yes} @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No
@item Packets prioritizing @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No
@item Mail compression @tab No @tab @strong{Yes} @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No
@item SMTP integration @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No @tab @strong{Yes} @tab N/A
@item Push/poll @tab @strong{Both} @tab @strong{Both} @tab @strong{Both} @tab Push
-@item Delay tolerant @tab @strong{Yes} @tab @strong{Yes} @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No
+@item DTN @tab @strong{Yes} @tab @strong{Yes} @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No
@item Intended network size @tab Dozens @tab Global @tab Dozens @tab Global
-@item Routing @tab Manual/static @tab Automatic @tab Manual/static @tab Automatic
+@item Routing @tab Manual/static @tab Federated @tab Manual/static @tab Federated
@item PSTN support @tab @strong{Yes} @tab @strong{Yes} @tab Possible @tab No
@item Anonymous peers @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No @tab No @tab @strong{Yes}
@item Peers authentication @tab PAP @tab PAP/CHAP @tab public-key @tab No
@item Packets encryption @tab No @tab No @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No
@item Metadata privacy @tab No @tab No @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No
@item Packets integrity check @tab No @tab No @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No
-@item Sneakernet friendliness @tab No @tab No @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No
+@item Sneakernet friendliness @tab No @tab Partially @tab @strong{Yes} @tab No
@end multitable
like GoldEd, not an ordinary email client. Moreover, there is no
out-of-box encryption and strong authentication involved.
- NNCP requires single YAML file editing and nothing more.
+ NNCP requires editing of single Hjson @ref{Configuration,
+ configuration file}.
@item News transmission
SMTP does not know anything about news, NNTP and so forth. Neither
SMTP could transfer files only Base64-encoding them -- this is very
inefficient.
+@item Chunked files
+ FTN software can automatically split huge files on smaller chunks,
+ to reassemble it on the destination node. NNCP also supports
+ @ref{Chunked, that feature}, especially important when dealing with
+ small capacity removable storage devices.
+
@item Packets prioritizing
UUCP and NNCP will push higher priority ("grade" in UUCP
terminology) packets first. You mail will pass, even when many
- gigabytes files is queued in parallel.
+ gigabytes files are queued in parallel.
@item SMTP integration
Mail servers like @url{http://www.postfix.org/, Postfix} offers
to be independent from specified model and be able to exchange the
data with possibility you have.
-@item Delay tolerant
+@item @url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-tolerant_networking, DTN} (delay tolerant networking)
SMTP will drop messages that can not be delivered for a long time
- (several days). Others are
- @url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-tolerant_networking,
- tolerant} for the long delays.
+ (several days). Others are tolerant for the long delays.
@item Routing
UUCP and NNCP does not known nothing about routing. You have to
@item Anonymous peers
NNCP and FTN are friend-to-friend networks exclusively. This is very
- secure and mitigates many possible man-in-the-middle attacks.
+ secure and mitigates many possible man-in-the-middle (MitM) and
+ @url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack, Sybil} attacks.
@item Sneakernet friendliness
No one, except NNCP, supports data exchanging via removable storages
- likes flash drives, CD-ROMs, tapes and hard drives. It can be
- emulated for many FTN software, by manually copying files in its
- inbound/outbound directories. But UUCP and SMTP software requires
- more manual work to do so.
+ likes flash drives, CD-ROMs, tapes and hard drives out-of-box. It
+ can be emulated for many FTN software, by manually copying files in
+ its inbound/outbound directories. But UUCP and SMTP software
+ requires more manual work to do so.
@end table