Re: TLS in Gopher

["Iain R. Learmonth" <irl@fsfe.org>]

Hi,

On 28/02/18 07:55, Kim Holviala wrote:
> Starttls is nice but requires gopher servers to be complied with OpenSSL or similar and will not work with inetd-based servers (because TLS would need to be initialized from scratch for each connection). So it will conpletely kill any simplicity gopher might have had. Dedicated TLS port (7443?) would work with TLS wrappers leaving the gopher server itself simple and the codebase understandable.

You could always have a TLS wrapper that is also happy to not do TLS.

This would allow clients to perform TLS if they wish, or not, and all on
the same port without complicating any codebases.

Thanks,
Iain.