[gopher] Re: RFC drafts
or SSH-2? Kinda like SFTP works
~Andrew
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From: gopher-bounce@complete.org [mailto:gopher-bounce@complete.org] On
Behalf Of Alessandro Selli
Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 11:09 AM
To: gopher@complete.org
Subject: [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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Alessandro Selli
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