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Gemini privacy

Sean Conner sean at conman.org

Wed Mar 10 00:54:54 GMT 2021

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It was thus said that the Great Phil Leblanc once stated:

On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 6:36 PM <nothien at uber.space> wrote:

P.S: I've been thinking about all the issues we've come across with TLS,

and I've been collecting ideas for a new transport security protocol. I

know ~spc's stance on crypto ("get it approved by the crypto community,

make an implementation, then we'll talk"),

I think Sean Conner's statement is rhetoric or tongue-in-cheek :-)

Whether one likes it or not, Gemini IS built upon TLS. Period. That

ship has sailed. So I understand Sean (and others) want to limit

entropy in the mailing list

It's not completely rhetorical---it's to just shut up those what wantothers to do the work. But I mean it---present a working proof-of-conceptthat has passed the crypto community and by all means, it'll be worthtalking about then (mostly about hose easy it is to implement across avariety of languages). Until then, it's TLS.

-spc (We've already had one "proof-of-concept" alternative crypto, but it was rejected by the person who did it for further study ... )