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An outsider's view of the `gemini://` protocol

Jason McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net

Tue Mar 10 13:46:58 GMT 2020

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"Aaron Janse" <aaron at ajanse.me> writes:

> Please no. PGP is a bit of a mess already. It's tough to
> install/maintain (because it has a daemon), and it's really easy to
> mess up. I think using something like NaCl could be much more
> difficult to mess up than automated PGP.

Yeah, in 2020, PGP is an elaborate foot-gun.

The suggestion of Noise protocol is actually more interesting, as it'ssmaller and more future-proof than TLS. But while there areimplementations in several languages, it's not as ubiquitous as TLS.(For instance, I had no trouble writing a Gemini server in Common Lisp,but I'd have to write my own bindings of the C implementation to useNoise protocol.) I'd have to read a lot more about it to know what itsadvantages are.

-- Jason McBrayer      | “Strange is the night where black stars rise,jmcbray at carcosa.net | and strange moons circle through the skies,                    | but stranger still is lost Carcosa.”                    | ― Robert W. Chambers,The King in Yellow