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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:325315 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > ALPN sounds useful and a good thing for Emacs to support. > But could you tell me a little more about this point? > > > For a service provider who makes it possible to access PostgreSQL > > over the internet, there are many benefits to the new ALPN-based mech= anism, such > > as allowing the use of commercial =E2=80=9CTLS gateways=E2=80=9D (tha= t do no application-level > > processing) as entrypoints to their network. I expect that over time,= an > > increasing proportion of internet services will require ALPN. > > What is a TLS gateway, and what would a usage scenario look like? > Who would choose to use one -- would it be the server, or the client? > > In particular, if you are running your own server and you could set up > whatever network access methods you like, why would someone use a > "gateway" to talk with your server? And presuming a decision to do > that, why would someone want to use a "commercial" one? A gateway can be something simple as a webserver as reverse proxy that prot= ects a program that can't do load balancing, does do tls or any other reason why the application HTTP server shouldn't be exposed directly to the internet.