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Benn Newman wrote: > On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 11:21:01AM -0400, Trevor wrote: > >> this intrigues me. >> >> (sorry i don't look familiar. been lurking the last couple of years.) >> >> one downfall, i feel, with gopher is it is clear text. has anyone thought >> about, besides me, an sGopher protocol? i think gopher would get more >> mainstream use if it had security built into it. many companies refuse to >> use anything that sends clear text over a wire. just a thought. >> > Gopher over SSL/TLS (from my understanding) is easy and already possible. > You can use something like stunnel (on the server) and socat (on the client) > I agree. Only, you will have to use a non-standard port where the SSL-gopher server will listen to, since there is no IANA-assigned "gophers" port like there is a "https" port (443 tcp).

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