Re: Gopher over TLS

[Sean Conner <sean@conman.org>]

It was thus said that the Great Emil Engler once stated:
> 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

  I wrote about this on my blog last year:

        http://boston.conman.org/2019/03/31.1
        gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2019/03/31.1

  Summary:  I don't think it's practical.  Even with the "peek the stream to
see the TLS handshake" would require updating all gopher servers at the
least.

  -spc