X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.ru/?p=nncp.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fcomparison.texi;h=d3d6fb174a675e0e01fde0af1b8d88a30da787c9;hp=4b7fd904f4f5bbadf2f7da323361ad29a7aff05b;hb=203dfe36da7adf2b3089e4fa4017a67409cbad70;hpb=152ecfdf11766df967a504efaef7b5ba77e6f5d7 diff --git a/doc/comparison.texi b/doc/comparison.texi index 4b7fd90..d3d6fb1 100644 --- a/doc/comparison.texi +++ b/doc/comparison.texi @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ @node Comparison +@cindex comparison +@cindex SMTP +@cindex FTN +@cindex FidoNet +@cindex UUCP @unnumbered Comparison with existing solutions Here is comparison with @url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP, UUCP} @@ -87,6 +92,7 @@ FidoNet} Technology Networks) and @url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMTP, SMTP} UUCP and NNCP does not known nothing about routing. You have to explicitly tell how to send (what hops to use) packets to each node. +@cindex PSTN @item PSTN support UUCP and FidoNet always have been working with modems out-of-box. Only many years later they gained support for working over TCP/IP @@ -94,11 +100,15 @@ FidoNet} Technology Networks) and @url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMTP, SMTP} TCP daemon, but nothing prohibits using of another 8-bit aware online transport. +@cindex anonymity +@cindex Sybil attack @item Anonymous peers NNCP and FTN are friend-to-friend networks exclusively. This is very secure and mitigates many possible man-in-the-middle (MitM) and @url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack, Sybil} attacks. +@cindex sneakernet +@cindex floppynet @item Sneakernet friendliness No one, except NNCP, supports data exchanging via removable storages likes flash drives, CD-ROMs, tapes and hard drives out-of-box. It @@ -108,6 +118,7 @@ FidoNet} Technology Networks) and @url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMTP, SMTP} @end table +@cindex UUCP commands Also there is @url{https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10165-asynchronous-email-exim-over-nncp-or-uucp, copy of} comparable commands of UUCP and NNCP, just for the interest: @@ -115,6 +126,11 @@ comparable commands of UUCP and NNCP, just for the interest: @multitable @columnfractions 0.5 0.25 0.25 @headitem Purpose @tab UUCP @tab NNCP +@pindex uucico +@pindex uupoll +@pindex uux +@pindex uucp +@pindex uuxqt @item Connect to remote system @tab @command{uucico -s}, @command{uupoll} @tab @command{nncp-call}, @command{nncp-caller}