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Sat Jun 27 18:06:04 BST 2020
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On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 06:32:19PM -0400, Sean Conner wrote:
It was thus said that the Great defdefred once stated:
On Thursday 25 June 2020 23:23, <paper at tilde.institute> wrote:
not really, VPN is only moving the problem to a different state/company,
then the traffic would be plain text. The solution would be a VPN to the
gemini server, but basicaly that's called TLS xD
True, but a VPN is created to serve multiple requests.
Yes and no. A VPN is *not* at all like HTTPS or Gemini. It is *not* used
for program to program communication (the TCP layer) but computer to
computer communciation (the IP layer). Technically, a VPN routes IP (the
packet of which are encrypted) over IP (the packets of which are regular,
unencrypted packets) and looks like a router. Normally, traffic would go:
[program1 -
data -
TCP -
IP -
client] (1st computer)
-
router -
router -
... router -
[server -
IP -
TCP -
data -
program2] (2nd computer)
A VPN does this:
[program1 -
data -
TCP -
IP -
VPN endpoint -
client] (1st computer)
-
router -
router ... -
router -
[VPN endpoint] (2nd computer)
-
router -
router ... -
router -
[server -
IP -
TCP -
data -
program2] (3rd computer)
I.E., a VPN is just a fancy router. The server never knows (nor cares)
about the VPN.
I know that, I was joking. My point was that defdefred was trying toinvent something like TLS, so I pointed him in the right direction ;)
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