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Networks & the Internet
Certificates and the Chain of Trust
TLS hands your browser a public key and says 'encrypt to me' — but anyone can generate a key. Certificates and a chain of signatures reaching back to a short list of preinstalled authorities are what tie that key to a real identity.
10 minJul 16, 2026
Networks & the Internet
TLS: Encrypting the Web
Plaintext HTTP let anyone on the path read your passwords. TLS wraps the connection in encryption by using slow asymmetric crypto only to authenticate the server and agree a key, then switching to fast symmetric crypto for the data.
10 minJul 14, 2026