IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, February 11, 2022
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09:41 schestowitz; <li>
09:41 schestowitz; <h5><a href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/02/breaking-245-bit-elliptic-curve-encryption-with-a-quantum-computer.html">Breaking 256-bit Elliptic Curve Encryption with a Quantum Computer</a></h5>
09:41 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.schneier.com | Breaking Diffie-Hellman with Massive Precomputation (Again) - Schneier on Security
09:41 schestowitz; <blockquote>
09:41 schestowitz; <p>Researchers have calculated the quantum computer size necessary to break 256-bit elliptic curve public-key cryptography: [...]</p></blockquote></li>
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11:57 schestowitz; Richard Stallman wrote on 11/02/2022 04:37:
11:57 schestowitz; > I see nothing bad in principle about gemini, no reason we wouldn't
11:57 schestowitz; > want to present www.gnu.org in that form. But it doesn't
11:57 schestowitz; > seem terribly urgent.
11:57 schestowitz; >
11:57 schestowitz; > So it's a question of whether someone wants to do the work.
11:57 schestowitz; >
11:57 schestowitz; > It will not just be one-time work. Changes in our web pages
11:57 schestowitz; > will need to be transferred into the gemini pages, meaning
11:57 schestowitz; > continuing work.
11:57 schestowitz; A lot of this can and should be automated. The FSF and to some extent GNU (.org) relies a lot on Drupal, but some pages (articles) are static and there's a wiki. The key thing is RSS feeds. In our case, we've developed tools (AGPLv3) to convert the WordPress RSS feeds and MediaWiki RSS feeds into interlinked GemText, which basically updates everything int he background (cron jobs). The same is true for the Git 'Web' (Gemini) interface. Because
11:57 schestowitz; GemText is so simple it is very simple to program with or 'hack' on.
11:57 schestowitz; We've shared a lot of code in
11:57 schestowitz; gemini://gemini.techrights.org/git/
11:57 schestowitz; WWW gateway:
11:57 schestowitz; http://gemini.techrights.org/proxy?url=gemini://gemini.techrights.org/git/
11:57 -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-gemini.techrights.org | Gemini Proxy for Techrights
noon, February 11
12:00 schestowitz; > I imagine that GNU has a quite consistent HTML style for new and
12:00 schestowitz; > archive articles.
12:00 schestowitz; >
12:00 schestowitz; > May I suggest that the best solution may be a small server
12:00 schestowitz; > modification that takes requests for gemini.gnu.org/document.gmi than
12:00 schestowitz; > fetches www.gnu.org/document.html, runs it through markdown to rewrite
12:00 schestowitz; > http links as gemini links and serves it.
12:00 schestowitz; >
12:00 schestowitz; > Perhaps one of the existing server developers could be motivated to
12:00 schestowitz; > field a feaure request for such an "HTML compatability mode" so that
12:00 schestowitz; > the general problem an be solved forward with something like;
12:00 schestowitz; >
12:00 schestowitz; > geminiserver -p 1965 -html /var/www/site/
12:00 schestowitz; >
12:00 schestowitz; > best,
12:00 schestowitz; > Andy
12:01 Techrights-sec; ack
12:01 Techrights-sec; the tool is very, very site specific and would serve more as an illustration of
12:01 Techrights-sec; how to approach the problem and not so much as something that could be retooled
12:01 Techrights-sec; for drupal or another wordpress site.
12:01 Techrights-sec; The FSF does have an RSS feed, though, so that approch would work. I'm not
12:01 Techrights-sec; sure if it is the best approach but it is one possible option.
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