solderpunk <solderpunk at SDF.ORG> writes: > Yes, it sucks that this philosophy drags in some complexity (I chose TLS > precisely to try to minimise the *implementation* complexity, by virtue > of ubiquitious library support and documentation) and some performance > penalty (which we so far have not made much serious effort to > ameliorate) [...] One argument that I often see is that TLS makes it impossible to use Gemini with retrocomputing setups (i.e. computers older than about 2005 in this case). I've encountered this also with brutaldon, my static HTML front-end for the Fediverse; people want to connect to it from Windows 3.1 or Mac System 7, and can't use anything newer than SSLv2, which a modern server will reject. My general recommendation for this case is to run a proxy (e.g. stunnel) on your own LAN, on something like a Raspberry Pi or a cellphone, and let it handle the encryption. This would work for Gemini as well. You'd need a cleartext client, but only for retro devices. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Jason F. McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net | | A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, | | even though we do not love it. -- Dogen |
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