Re: Gopher over TLS

[Sebastiaan Deckers <sebdeckers83@gmail.com>]

FWIW, I drafted a spec of Gopher over TLS. Published the server and client libraries and deployed them in production.

https://gitlab.com/commonshost/goth#gopher-over-tls-got-protocol

TL;DR

- Dual-stack negotiation of plaintext and TLS on port 70/tcp

- Use TLSv1.2 or greater for security.

- Use TLSv1.3 for 0RTT to minimise the performance loss.

- Require SNI for virtual hosting.

- Require ALPN=gopher for future compatibility.

On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 6:36 AM Emil Engler <me@emilengler.com> wrote:

Hi, I thought about writing a standard for a secure Gopher protocol
(short gophers).
Have there been any proposals for this yet and what's the general
consensus about this on this ML

Cheers,
Emil