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TLS certificates, actually explained, no hand-waving
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1587+ words) Most developers use TLS constantly and understand it vaguely, "it's the padlock, it means encrypted," without a clear picture of what's actually happening or, more usefully, what actually breaks and why when a cert issue takes down production. Let me…...
The Certificate That Expired at 2:03 AM
2+ week, 4+ day ago (439+ words) https://appdirs.com/ At 2:02 AM, everything was working. At 2:03 AM, users started receiving connection errors. The servers were running. CPU and memory were …...
State sovereignty and censorship | D+C - Development + Cooperation
2+ week, 5+ day ago (327+ words) The Iranian regime has established a sophisticated system of digital blockades, surveillance and censorship. Experts believe that it cooperates to this end with the Chinese government and uses technologies supplied by Chinese state-owned firms. This would certainly tie in very…...
Stop saying SSL: TLS only does three jobs, and your 'SSL cert' is usually not the outage
2+ week, 5+ day ago (330+ words) Runbooks still say "renew the SSL certificate" when the browser warning is obsolete protocol. The certificate can be brand new. The tunnel is still TLS 1.0. This is a shortened English note. The tables, handshake diagram, and OpenSSL CLI checks live…...
Beyond Protocol and Policy: Why Project Jake is Reshaping the Architecture of Internet Trust
2+ week, 5+ day ago (260+ words) RDAP introduced structured JSON formatting, secure transport layers, and standardized query syntax. From an engineering standpoint, it was a triumph. Yet, RDAP hit a hard ceiling when deployed globally, exposing a fundamental limitation of the IETF’s mandate: protocols can dictate…...
SSL Certificate Problem: Unable to Get Local Issuer Certificate
2+ week, 5+ day ago (461+ words) You open the site in a browser and the padlock is green. Then your app tries to call the same host and dies: Here is the reframing that makes the whole error make sense. A TLS server is supposed to…...
Your first shortened TLS certificates expire in September – 4sysops
2+ week, 5+ day ago (34+ words) Public TLS validity dropped from 398 days to 200 days on March 15, 2026, the first of three cuts on the way to 47 days in March 2029. Most CAs moved early, so c...
SmartHoldem Launches Netfory: The First Web 4.0 Operating System for a Censorship-Resistant Internet
3+ week, 2+ day ago (27+ words) PRLog SmartHoldem Launches Netfory: The First Web 4.0 Operating System for a Censorship-Resistant Internet...
How Internet Censorship Threatens IoT Systems
3+ week, 2+ day ago (701+ words) The Internet of Things rests on a simple premise: devices talk to each other across a free and open internet. Smart city sensors stream data to municipal dashboards. Connected medical devices relay patient vitals to healthcare providers. Industrial IoT systems…...