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schestowitz <li>Feb 11 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>Feb 11 09:41
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.schneier.com | Breaking Diffie-Hellman with Massive Precomputation (Again) - Schneier on SecurityFeb 11 09:41
schestowitz                  <blockquote>Feb 11 09:41
schestowitz                    <p>Researchers have calculated the quantum computer size necessary to break 256-bit elliptic curve public-key cryptography: [...]</p></blockquote></li>Feb 11 09:41
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schestowitzRichard Stallman wrote on 11/02/2022 04:37:Feb 11 11:57
schestowitz> I see nothing bad in principle about gemini, no reason we wouldn'tFeb 11 11:57
schestowitz> want to present www.gnu.org in that form.  But it doesn'tFeb 11 11:57
schestowitz> seem terribly urgent.Feb 11 11:57
schestowitz> Feb 11 11:57
schestowitz> So it's a question of whether someone wants to do the work.Feb 11 11:57
schestowitz> Feb 11 11:57
schestowitz> It will not just be one-time work.  Changes in our web pagesFeb 11 11:57
schestowitz> will need to be transferred into the gemini pages, meaningFeb 11 11:57
schestowitz> continuing work.Feb 11 11:57
schestowitzA 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 Feb 11 11:57
schestowitzGemText is so simple it is very simple to program with or 'hack' on.Feb 11 11:57
schestowitzWe've shared a lot of code in Feb 11 11:57
schestowitzgemini://gemini.techrights.org/git/Feb 11 11:57
schestowitzWWW gateway:Feb 11 11:57
schestowitzhttp://gemini.techrights.org/proxy?url=gemini://gemini.techrights.org/git/Feb 11 11:57
-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-gemini.techrights.org | Gemini Proxy for TechrightsFeb 11 11:57
schestowitz> I imagine that GNU has a quite consistent HTML style for new andFeb 11 12:00
schestowitz> archive articles.Feb 11 12:00
schestowitz> Feb 11 12:00
schestowitz> May I suggest that the best solution may be a small serverFeb 11 12:00
schestowitz> modification that takes requests for gemini.gnu.org/document.gmi thanFeb 11 12:00
schestowitz> fetches www.gnu.org/document.html, runs it through markdown to rewriteFeb 11 12:00
schestowitz> http links as gemini links and serves it.Feb 11 12:00
schestowitz> Feb 11 12:00
schestowitz> Perhaps one of the existing server developers could be motivated toFeb 11 12:00
schestowitz> field a feaure request for such an "HTML compatability mode" so thatFeb 11 12:00
schestowitz> the general problem an be solved forward with something like;Feb 11 12:00
schestowitz> Feb 11 12:00
schestowitz> geminiserver -p 1965  -html /var/www/site/Feb 11 12:00
schestowitz> Feb 11 12:00
schestowitz> best,Feb 11 12:00
schestowitz> AndyFeb 11 12:00
Techrights-secack Feb 11 12:01
Techrights-secthe tool is very, very site specific and would serve more as an illustration ofFeb 11 12:01
Techrights-sechow to approach the problem and not so much as something that could be retooledFeb 11 12:01
Techrights-secfor drupal or another wordpress site.Feb 11 12:01
Techrights-secThe FSF does have an RSS feed, though, so that approch would work.  I'm notFeb 11 12:01
Techrights-secsure if it is the best approach but it is one possible option.  Feb 11 12:01
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