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[tech] Pre-generated trust stores for various Gemini clients

Stephane Bortzmeyer stephane at sources.org

Fri Jun 4 20:00:15 BST 2021

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On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 10:11:45AM -0700, panda-roux <contact at panda-roux.dev> wrote a message of 224 lines which said:

- What's your process for requesting the removal of a domain's certificate
from this list?

I assume that capsules which no longer reply are removed after sometime. This is how the Lupa list used as input works: it contains onlycapsules that were contacted successfully in the last weeks.

- Does the software you're using to generate this list respond to any
robots.txt directives (i.e. "don't index me" or "expire after x days")?

No need to do so: just retrieving robots.txt informs the crawler aboutthe certificate. No later connection is necessary.

- Why circumvent TOFU?  I don't mean for this to come across as
antagonistic, but doesn't this defeat the purpose of having a decentralized
protocol in the first place?

It is precisely the decentralization that allows any one (nervuri,you, me, anyone) to create such a list and such a repository. Afterthat, people use it if they want.