WebPKI and You
There’s been a push over the last twelve years to move web traffic off unencrypted HTTP to encrypted HTTPS, to protect the general public from dragnet surveillance, gaping assholes on public wifi>airpwn, backhauls over unencrypted satellites, that kinda thing. HTTPS relies on a public key infrastructure to make sure only authorized servers have keys for specific websites. [>oid]: an OID or “Object IDentifier” is intended [brs]: https://cabforum.org/working-groups/server/baseline-requireme…
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