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jzs jzs at sketchground.dk
Fri Jun 26 16:40:04 BST 2020
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Hi there,
I am the author of cozylabs.eu.
However, the smallest certificate I have encountered belongs to
cozylabs.eu. It is 273 bytes, i.e. 20% of the average! Or, about 1 KiB
smaller than average. That's 1KiB less network traffic for each
request to that server compare to a typical server.
cozylabs.eu achieves this feat with a single self-signed ED25519
certificate. For folks who want to ditch the CA system and embrace
TOFU, this is clearly the way to do it. I will migrate
gemini.circumlunar.space to this style of certificate in the near
future.
Cheers,
Solderpunk
The code that i use to generate my certificate is as follows:https://git.sr.ht/~jzs/cozylabs.eu-gemini/tree/master/server.go#L263
It might serve as an inspiration to making a generic standalone certificategenerator for those interested.
Kind regards,Jens.