Re: State of Gopher and TLS?

On 25/10/2022 11:53, barana . wrote:
>   when you upgrade servers so that people who browse with low h.p. 
> devices are locked out....
> (...)
> gopher servers leave behind the only clients that gopher effectively 
> serves.... kinda pointless.

Wholeheartedly agree. Gopher is a technology from the early 90s. Runs 
great on my 8086, and that's what makes it valuable: it's dead simple, 
lightweight and has been around for a long time.

Adding complexity to such a protocol is nonsense, it can only lead to 
fragmentation of an already very sparse* community.

If one wants to play with "modern security", then there is a lot of far 
more interesting options, like gnunet, ipfs, tor, etc. No need to 
fracture good old Gopher with some broken TLS abomination.

*as of today, the Observable Gopherspace Universe Project reports a mere 
306 operational servers.

Mateusz
gopher://gopher.viste.fr