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Jason McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net
Fri Jun 26 12:51:05 BST 2020
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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 useGemini with retrocomputing setups (i.e. computers older than about2005 in this case). I've encountered this also with brutaldon, my static HTMLfront-end for the Fediverse; people want to connect to it from Windows3.1 or Mac System 7, and can't use anything newer than SSLv2, which amodern 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, andlet it handle the encryption. This would work for Gemini as well. You'dneed a cleartext client, but only for retro devices.
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