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Michael Mientus <michael.mientus@gmail.com>
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FYI you should be aware of the Titan protocol. This lets you write to a 
Gemini server. Authentication is done via client certificates. So, there 
would need to be some scheme for associating client certificates with 
existing user accounts.

=> transjovian.org/titan    Titan Protocol

=> https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2020/000528.html   Client 
certificates

=> https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2020/000987.html Client 
certificate musings

I was not familiar with client certificates. But the Lagrange help file 
has a primer in section 1.6.

=> 
https://git.skyjake.fi/gemini/lagrange/raw/branch/release/res/about/help.gmi 
    ## 1.6 Identities (client certificates)

=> https://www.ssl.com/article/private-and-public-keys/    Private And 
Public Keys

Section 4.3 of the Gemini specification also talks about client 
certificates.

=> gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/specification.gmi    4.3 Client 
certificates

Lagrange added support for Titan in version 1.6.

=> https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange/releases/tag/v1.6.0  Lagrange 
v1.6 Release Notes

Maybe Titan can be added to the todo list for Flounder. Then we would be 
able to interact with Flounder without requiring HTTPS or SFTP.

Regards,

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Mike
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On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 04:52:00PM -0500, Michael Mientus wrote:
> FYI you should be aware of the Titan protocol. This lets you write to a
> Gemini server.

Hi Michael, I am loosely aware of the Titan protocol. Thanks for your
email. I have two comments:

First, I currently spend very little time working on Flounder, do to
other obligations, so I'm not focused on new features

Second, while the Titan protocol is interesting, my approach with
flounder is to be very conservative about the features or extensions I
implement. There are many competing "Gemini but POST" protocols, and I
am waiting for things to settle a bit, where the community picks one
winner, to decide which one I may want to implement.

If you or someone you know wants to put together a patch for this, I
would be open to it though!

Alex
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