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So let me get this straight, you believe that only because you can, you should waste cycles encrypting data that is meant to be public.
That said the perma-cookie + auth with key is interesting, but only works on your own machines, how would you use that to say "pay a bill at the library public computer"?
Comment by shavetheyaks at 16/01/2025 at 19:13 UTC
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As far as "wasting cycles" goes, do gemini clients and servers currently run unacceptably slow for you? And have you profiled it and seen that it was the encryption that was making it slow?
It may be. But given how often TLS is used in performance-critical embedded stuff and how many SoCs have encryption hardware onboard, any slowdown probably has more to do with network round trip latency not being hidden by the prefetching and caching that modern web browsers do. And maybe sites don't use TLS compression when they should.