VCVictor Chukwuemeka Onwuegbuchuleminvictor-chukwuemeka.hashnode.dev·Aug 14 · 18 min readTLS and Certificates: How Two Strangers Agree on a Secret, and Why Your Browser Trusts AnyoneLast post ended with a promise. We had explained that HTTPS is ordinary HTTP running inside an encrypted tunnel called TLS, Transport Layer Security, and that this tunnel provides confidentiality, int00
VCVictor Chukwuemeka Onwuegbuchuleminvictor-chukwuemeka.hashnode.dev·Aug 8 · 18 min readHTTP and HTTPS: The Language of the Web, and the S That Protects ItWe have climbed a long way up the stack. We gave data a network to travel on, a way to travel in packets, an address to aim for, a name that resolves to that address, and in the last post, a reliable 00
VCVictor Chukwuemeka Onwuegbuchuleminvictor-chukwuemeka.hashnode.dev·Aug 2 · 17 min readTCP vs UDP: Reliability or Speed, the Choice Every Connection MakesWe have spent this series following data on its journey. We gave it a network to travel on, a way to travel in packets, layers to pass through, an address to aim for, and a name that resolves to that 00
VCVictor Chukwuemeka Onwuegbuchuleminvictor-chukwuemeka.hashnode.dev·Jul 18 · 15 min readWhy the Web Centralised: The Protocol Gaps That Platforms FilledFive posts in, this series has been circling one idea from five different angles. ARPANET connected four trusted institutions and needed no security, because everyone on it was known. Packets travel w00
VCVictor Chukwuemeka Onwuegbuchuleminvictor-chukwuemeka.hashnode.dev·Jul 12 · 14 min readConnecting a Domain to a VPS From a Different Company: The Guide Nobody Gives YouAlmost everyone who has ever deployed something hits this exact wall. You rent a VPS from one provider, maybe Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Contabo, or a Namecheap VPS. It gives you a public IP address, a st20
