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[gopher] Re: RFC drafts



Benn Newman wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 11:21:01AM -0400, Trevor wrote:
>   
>> this intrigues me.
>>
>> (sorry i don't look familiar. been lurking the last couple of years.)
>>
>> one downfall, i feel, with gopher is it is clear text. has anyone thought 
>> about, besides me, an sGopher protocol? i think gopher would get more 
>> mainstream use if it had security built into it. many companies refuse to 
>> use anything that sends clear text over a wire. just a thought.
>>     
> Gopher over SSL/TLS (from my understanding) is easy and already possible.
> You can use something like stunnel (on the server) and socat (on the client)
>   
  I agree.  Only, you will have to use a non-standard port where the 
SSL-gopher server
will listen to, since there is no IANA-assigned "gophers" port like 
there is a "https" port
(443 tcp).


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