Gemini is a little gem

Re:Gemini is a little gem by spc476 on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @02:51PM (#30090754)

But gopher doesn't have TLS. Yes, there are clients that attempt to make TLS connections to gopher servers and will fall back to plain TCP on failure, but that's a hack (and a pretty annoying one at that).

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Re:Gemini is a little gem by owroomexorcist on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @03:05PM (#30090951)

What's wrong with not having TLS? If it's just for hobbiests to share text documents, why include a TLS layer?

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Re:Gemini is a little gem by capableweb on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @03:07PM (#30090970)

Suddenly you can't trust anything you're being served as there are so many endpoints you could be MITM'd at. Reading a text about some experience someone had? Snippets from that text could have been replaced if you are not using any cryptographic protocol what so ever.

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Re:Gemini is a little gem by owroomexorcist on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @03:10PM (#30091009)

Fair point. But if we're talking about a protocol not meant for the mainstream, is it really an attack vector to worry about?

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Re:Gemini is a little gem by spc476 on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @04:23PM (#30092096)

For some, yes.

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