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

[Stephen Kellat]

> On Sep 16, 2017, at 12:00 AM, Iain R. Learmonth <irl at fsfe.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 

RFC 4217 comes to mind at this point & I wonder if letsencrypt.org supports that perchance.

Stephen Michael Kellat