[gopher] Should we be mirroring Gopher sites via FTP?

[Iain R. Learmonth]

On 15/09/17 12:59, Mr. Leveck wrote:
> On a related topic, the thing that bugs me about the wide adoption of
> HTTPS on the WWW is the cost. Free certs are logically seen as insecure,
> just as a modern browser will call an HTTP site insecure. The price of a
> cert poses a barrier. A wife, three kids (the oldest and costliest is
> 20), a mortgage, and a car payment keeps myself from buying a
> certificate. The other thing that bothers me is the tying back of my
> site to my personage. The internet of my youth was an anonymous affair.
> I do not engage in illegal activities, but I have an intense dislike of
> scrutiny. Can anyone punch a hole in what I have typed in this
> paragraph? Please do: what am I missing?

https://letsencrypt.org/

Automated provisioning of certs, free of charge. Validation is secure.
Almost all browsers will accept these certs.

Thanks,
Iain.