↳ In-reply-to » Wow! 😳 The Gopher community (on the mailing list) is rather hostile 😢 I asked what the state of Gopher + TLS is these days and the response I got was basically:

TLS is absolutely applicable to Gopher and people have done it, but there’s no standard so everyone implements it differently.
It’s not widely implemented in clients or daemons.

Also, lots of people are against TLS because it’s too hard to implement on your own; Gopher daemons would need to depend on an external library.

If you want Gopher encrypted, the best option is to make your Gopher daemon accessible as a Tor hidden service.