VCVictor Chukwuemeka Onwuegbuchuleminvictor-chukwuemeka.hashnode.dev·Aug 30 · 18 min readRouting and BGP: How the Whole Internet Agrees Where to Send Your DataWe have come a long way. We have addresses, names that resolve to them, reliable connections, and encryption that protects what those connections carry. But every single one of those posts rested on a00
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
