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Re: Will Gemini ever become a standardized protocol?

- nervuri <nervuri at disroot.org>

@ Mon, 05 Apr 2021 15:43 +0000

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On Sat, 2021-03-27, nervuri wrote:

On Sat, Mar 27, 2021, Drew DeVault wrote:

>BearSSL is compelling for many reasons

I agree.

>and though work is slow, it is definitely underway. We'll get there.

Ah, so you've been in contact with the developer. Good to hear.

Thanks!

I shouldn't have assumed this. So, just to check: how do you know that

work on BearSSL "is definitely underway"?

Judging by the commit log, development has just about ground to a halt.

Since 2019 there have only been bug & typo fixes and commits have been

getting rarer.

Also, BearSSL has no external audits and doesn't seem to have many eyes

on it. The author claims it's beta-quality software. It also lacks

ed25519 support:

https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/gmni-discuss/%3C20210316075714.091701CC0043%40dd49836.kasserver.com%3E

I hope it picks up again, but would avoid it in its current state. For

very low spec systems, Mbed TLS might be a better way to go:

https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls

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