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Ditching mandatory TLS

Sean Conner sean at conman.org

Sat Jul 4 22:56:19 BST 2020

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It was thus said that the Great solderpunk once stated:

On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 05:12:17PM -0400, Sean Conner wrote:
I won't argue that TLS is a bad choice, but before throwing out
alternatives like yggdrasil, cjdns or noise, instead *just implement the
damn thing* [1][2]---write both a Gemini server and client (for bonus
points---implement ALL THE ENCRYPTIONS!) so the rest of us can see how easy
it is, and *then* we can have an actual discussion about transitioning away
from TLS (or including other mechanisms).
I don't really know much about cjdns or noise, but Yggdrasil just looks
like an ordinary IPv6 tunnel and requires nothing special from software.

If that's the case for Yggdrasil, then you are *still* using TLS over it(and it's not a replacement for TLS).

-spc