1Sub.dev – A world where people pay for software

Re:1Sub.dev – A world where people pay for software by inglor_cz on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:28AM (#36878311)

Uh, look at curl. It is an excellent product, no doubt about it (or if you do, I wonder what your standards for excellence are), and yet we are here, at version 8.0, 27 years after its first release.

Edit:

"if it doesn't rely on any online services"

That is a big IF. How many things don't, at least indirectly? (e.g. by relying on HTTPS, which requires TLS, which requires keeping up with current cryptographic standards.)

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Re:1Sub.dev – A world where people pay for software by grishka on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:05PM (#36887966)

If cryptography can't possibly be figured out once and for all and must remain a moving target forever, I'd separate TLS into a module that can be updated independently of the rest of the system.

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