solderpunk solderpunk at SDF.ORG
Thu May 14 22:23:58 BST 2020
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ``` On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 02:09:04PM -0700, Dave Huseby wrote: > I surely will. I'm curious about your thinking. I'm not sure you'll be completely sold, but I hope you'll see where I'mcoming from. To try to boil it all down: I absolutely agree that TLS has problemsand I don't doubt that other things, like CurveCP, might overcome oravoid a lot of them. But I believe something built on TLS isoverwhelmingly more likely to be widely implemented and deployed thansomething based on literally anything else, and at the end of the day aI think a good but not perfect protocol which becomes widely used andsupported will do a lot more good for the internet than a "perfect"protocol which never becomes more than a curiosity for a smallcommunity of enthusiasts. This is not to say I don't think anything "strange and new" can *ever*"catch on" or that I think any such efforts are a waste of time. I wishall the radical projects aiming at lofty goals all the luck in theworld, sincerely. But there's a valid niche for something not quite soradical which can still be a real and valuable improvement over thestatus quo with very low barriers to adoption. Cheers,Solderpunk