CGI, SCGI and Certificates (was Re: [ANN] Gemini browser for iOS)

[solderpunk]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 08:49:57PM +0000, solderpunk wrote:
 
> I was actually going to suggest base64-encoded SHA256 of the binary
> (PEM) certificate (mostly guided by OpenSSH's use of base64 in
> .authorized_keys), but I'm happy to hear thoughts on this.

Forgot to mention: in the web browser world, using a hexadecimal
encoding of a SHA-family hash with colons between each byte seems to be
the norm.  We could adopt that for familiarity / consistency as well.
It's less compact, but it's also much easier to e.g. verify by eyeball.
 
Cheers,
Solderpunk