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by deathanatos 748 days ago
> By agreeing on all these algorithms, exchanging random seeds, and the server’s SSL certificate containing the private key;

I sure hope not. But I suppose it is titled "Mediocre Engineer".

> $300K/year

… I'll undercut you by $50k/y; where do I apply?

(There are just more and more errors. TLS <1.3 doesn't even work the way it describes, even though it tries to throw newer stuff into 1.3. The DNS section describes a recursive resolver, but the client isn't going to do that. It is probably talking to a stub resolver, too. "Internet Layer". The implication of "brotli" being a widely used algorithm in a ciphersuite/in TLS's compression, "Current version of TLS (>1.3) do not support RSA" …

… these sorts of blogspam are why I wish sometimes that there was a downvote. The advert isn't so obnoxious as to make me want to flag is low enough. I guess I should write the less mediocre article and make the HN frontpage. If only I made $300K/y, I'd have more time.)