From Newsgroup: sci.crypt

Thanks to the awesome Usenet server from Gabx, it is now possible with b4u[1] to send such articles anonymously or via clear net to Usenet and fetch them later, with the help of esub (Encrypted Subject) and a replay cache.

An example upload session via Tor:

C:\Users\xxxxxxxxxx\Desktop>b4u -v -s -k sci.crypt -n alt.anonymous.messages -S news.tcpreset.net cypherpunk-manifesto.pdf
Verbose mode enabled
Configuration:
Block size: 32 KB
Max batch: 500
Days: 0
Latest: 0
Timeout: 1200 seconds
Proxy port: 9050
Split cypherpunk-manifesto.pdf into 2 blocks of 32 KB each
Connecting to NNTP server...
Server greeting: 200 news.tcpreset.net InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.6.4 ready (posting ok)
Posting 2 articles...
Posted article 1/2 for cypherpunk-manifesto.pdf (esub: e98a57ac41c57589e5850d5d7042d16125cd5c7fdb8cd21b)
Posted article 2/2 for cypherpunk-manifesto.pdf (esub: 79c6f79e38d492a8d15435b6d6c0e0e0b8cf8dd2afe61a13)
All articles posted successfully
Successfully sent 2 articles for cypherpunk-manifesto.pdf

An example download session, via clear net:

C:\Users\xxxxxxxxxx\Desktop>b4u -v -r -k sci.crypt -n alt.anonymous.messages -S news.tcpreset.net -rc -latest 10 -pp 0
Cache enabled
Cache loaded from: C:\Users\stefa\.usenet_cache.json
Replay cache entries: 0
File cache entries: 0
Verbose mode enabled
Configuration:
Block size: 32 KB
Max batch: 500
Days: 0
Latest: 10
Timeout: 1200 seconds
Proxy port: 0
Proxy: disabled
Cache: enabled
Starting receive mode...
Server greeting: 200 news.tcpreset.net InterNetNews NNRP server INN 2.6.4 ready (posting ok)
Fetching last 10 articles by number (range: 10657-10666)
Downloading articles 10657-10666 (10 total)
Batch size: 500 articles
Mode: latest-N (ignores previous state)
Batch 10657-10666: found 10 valid esub articles
rLo cypherpunk-manifesto.pdf part 1/2 (article 10665)
rLo cypherpunk-manifesto.pdf part 2/2 (article 10666)

Download complete: 10 articles found, 2 downloaded in 0.8 seconds Reconstructing files from articles...
Total articles to process: 2
Found 1 unique files

Processing file: cypherpunk-manifesto.pdf
Found 1 different versions (different totals)
Version with 2 total parts: found 2 articles
Completeness: 100.0% (2/2)
Successfully reconstructed: cypherpunk-manifesto.pdf (2/2 parts)

Reconstruction complete. Successfully reconstructed 1 files.
Cache saved successfully

Once again *big* thanks to Gabx and his awesome News server!

[1] https://github.com/Ch1ffr3punk/b4u

Hope you find this information useful!

Regards
Stefan
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