Rebuilding TLS, Part 1 — Why Encryption Alone Is...

A year ago I wrote a series about how a web server works. I started from a very primitive version and step by step moved toward the same core ideas modern production servers rely on. When I finished that series, I thought the next step would be small. Wrap it in TLS. Make the communication secure. It did not stay small for long. What looked like a thin security layer on top of an existing server turned into a much deeper journey into cryptography, authentication, trust, certificates, protocol de