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[tech] Plaintext Gemini extension

Artur Honzawa arturh at gmail.com

Wed Mar 10 08:45:07 GMT 2021

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Makes sense. Would security be impacted if clients applied TOFU and refusedto downgrade if they had previously established a secure connection?

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 9:33 AM Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane at sources.org>wrote:

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 09:18:14AM +0100,
Artur Honzawa <arturh at gmail.com> wrote
a message of 25 lines which said:
Add gemini-plaintext: schema for servers without TLS support.
Each time you have two security levels (encrypted and unencrypted),
besides added complexity, you have the problem of downgrade attacks
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downgrade_attack>. These attacks have
plagued all protocols with both an encrypted nd unencrypted version
(SMTP…), that's why HTTP/3 (and Gemini!) only have one version.
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