ANN: go-hg — Mercury Protocol client & server library for Go programming language

[Charles Iliya Krempeaux]

Interesting — did you post your work online somewhere?

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Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.
cikrempeaux@gmail.com



On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 4:19 PM <gemini@xj-ix.luxe> wrote:

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> On 10/31/21 21:30, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote:
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> > For me I prefer to separate out the TLS part from the server part. So,
> > this implementation isn't an attempt to get rid of encryption, but
> > instead a way of dividing up the technology to make it easier to work
> with.
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> > I was originally doing this in a Gemini Protocol Go implementation, and
> > calling the TLS-free version "naked Gemini". But when I started reading
> > the mailing list archive, and some of the gemlogs — still working
> > through them — and noticed Mercury was the same thing, I created Go
> > package hg.
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> i've interpreted mercury similarly, though it doesn't exactly match the
> thought experiment post that solderpunk made about it. i like this
> approach as well to be honest. my gemini server project has a similar
> approach and serves "mercury" or gemini sans tls on port 1958. i assume
> this isn't canonical by any means, but it amuses me.
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> good luck with your project!
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