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nervuri nervuri at disroot.org
Sat Mar 27 14:49:27 GMT 2021
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On Thu, Mar 25, 2021, Rohan Kumar wrote:
On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 08:41:16AM +0100, almaember wrote:
Either way, even if we can't get in cURL right now, a C based Gemini
library would be really important
Good news: this exists! Building https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/gmni will build
the libgmni library, is linked into the gmni (cURL-like) and gmnlm
clients. All three are in the same repo.
Note that gmni recently switched to BearSSL, which does not support TLS1.3. I'll repeat what I wrote on the spec issue tracker:
OpenSSL, LibreSSL, GnuTLS, wolfSSL and BoringSSL all support TLS 1.3.BearSSL is the only TLS library I know of which doesn't. TLS 1.3 is onits roadmap [1], but the last BearSSL release was in August 2018 and theproject has been less and less active [2] since.
[1] https://bearssl.org/tls13.html[2] https://bearssl.org/gitweb/?p=BearSSL;a=summary
Phasing out TLS 1.2 is one of the Gemini project's aspirations, asstated in the spec:
TLS 1.2 is reluctantly permitted for now to avoid drastically reducing
the range of available implementation libraries. Hopefully TLS 1.3 or
higher can be specced in the near future. Clients who wish to be
"ahead of the curve MAY refuse to connect to servers using TLS version
1.2 or lower.
Client developers can use gemini://egsam13.glv.one/ to test TLS 1.3compatibility.