That time Verisign typo-squatted all of .com and .net(rachelbythebay.com)

284 points by zdw 2 years ago | 107 comments

A terrible way to jump into colocating your own stuff(rachelbythebay.com)

212 points by ingve 2 years ago | 139 comments

Getaddrinfo() on glibc calls getenv(), oh boy(rachelbythebay.com)

259 points by defrost 3 years ago | 229 comments

My rants about TP-Link Omada networking products(rachelbythebay.com)

9 points by zdw 2 years ago | 0 comments

Colocation: Non-Clown Hosting(rachelbythebay.com)

156 points by ingve 2 years ago | 137 comments

Add extra stuff to a “standard” encoding? Sure, why not(rachelbythebay.com)

206 points by l0b0 3 years ago | 127 comments

I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s(mcpherrin.ca)

461 points by ahlCVA 1 month ago | 106 comments

Blog post by Matthew McPherrin describing factoring the RSA keys of a 1990s-era certificate authority and what it says about RSA security.

How to build a website without frameworks and tons of libraries(kodingkitty.com)

434 points by KodingKitty 3 years ago | 232 comments

A Koding Kitty blog post explaining how the author built their website without frameworks or heavy libraries, prompted by an IndieHackers question.

Where Have All the Websites Gone?(fromjason.xyz)

492 points by benrutter 2 years ago | 375 comments

A personal blog essay reflecting on how the web has shifted from discovering independent websites to algorithmic social media feeds.

API Shouldn't Redirect HTTP to HTTPS(jviide.iki.fi)

584 points by oherrala 2 years ago | 252 comments

Blog post arguing that APIs should fail visibly on plain HTTP requests instead of redirecting to HTTPS, noting many major API providers don't.

Why SSL was renamed to TLS in late 90s (2014)(tim.dierks.org)

520 points by Bogdanp 1 year ago | 223 comments

Tim Dierks' 2014 blog post explaining how Netscape-Microsoft browser war politics led SSL to be standardized and renamed as TLS.

TLS certificate lifetimes will officially reduce to 47 days(digicert.com)

485 points by crtasm 1 year ago | 586 comments

DigiCert blog post announcing that the CA/Browser Forum voted to reduce maximum TLS certificate lifetimes to 47 days.