I have been thinking about
#gemini #protocol lately and it's
#TOFU model in particular. While I understand what they are going for, I think it's still really vurnelable against attacks from the
#StateActors. Even if
#HTTPS cannot penetrate the block, lack of
#certificate alerts user to the tampering.
The system where each
#server has something like a
#webring of hashes certificates of other
#websites and clients would check if site supplies real or fake certificates is interesting, but the system still need
#bootstraping (Maybe with the help of something like
#TOR or
#I2P) and it still has risk of sites being
#coerced into hosting
#fraudulent certificates and then using them to act as
#MITM.
Perhaps system of more reasonable compromises can exist, but I am not sure.