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by exikyut 1542 days ago
> CYPHER

*twitch*

Turns out that's not misspelled. Well. It is and it isn't. The misspelling is codified in the spec.

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/security/nss...:

  ER3(SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP, SSL_ERROR_BASE + 2,
      "Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s).")
2 comments

That's not a misspelling (though it is a less-common variant).

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/147965/cipher-vs...

Ciphers in Cyber are Cyphers.