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Start reading here. If there is only one thing that you take away from this comic, let it be this one.
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To understand how HTTPS works, you have to know how symmetric and asymmetric key encryption works. It sounds like big words, but really it's not.
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When you browse to a HTTP secure site, your browser and the server where it connects to have a secret handshake. We break this down and bring it into the real world so you can greet your friends with the secret handshake.
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It's easy to confuse HTTPS, SSL, and TLS. We often use these terms interchangeably. Let's talk about each of them with a bit of hiss-tory.
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What do they do? Why do we need them? How do they validate certificates? So many questions to answer in this last chapter of the comic!