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Mediocre Engineer's Guide to HTTPS
As a mediocre engineer, I took Internet and HTTPS communication for granted and never dove any deeper. Today we’re improving as engineers and learning a rough overview of how internet communication works, specifically focusing on HTTP and TLS.
The reason why the internet appears to operate so smoothly (at least from a technical perspective) is the layers of abstraction the handle retries, ordering, deduplication, security and so many other things behind the scenes. The process we just went through is a little outdated, but it’s a great place to start due to it introducing the necessary concepts of what needs to be agreed upon for secure server <> client communication. Essentially, the client is assuming that it knows the server’s preferred key exchange method (which, due to the simplified list of cipher suites, it probably does).
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