Saturday, September 18, 2010

A long explanation of the first few milliseconds of an HTTPS connection

You'll enjoy this
 from www.moserware.com
In the 220 milliseconds that flew by, a lot of interesting stuff happened to make Firefox change the address bar color and put a lock in the lower right corner. With the help of Wireshark, my favorite network tool, and a slightly modified debug build of Firefox, we can see exactly what's going on.
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