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Re:How to keep your ISP’s nose out of your browser history w... by ori_b on Monday April 09, 2018 @01:20AM (#16790606)
> What if we could have first class SSL certs for IP addresses?

They're not routable.

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Re:How to keep your ISP’s nose out of your browser history w... by rmwaite on Monday April 09, 2018 @06:06PM (#16797402)
What does this mean?
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Re:How to keep your ISP’s nose out of your browser history w... by ori_b on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @12:07AM (#16798908)
What's the next hop for a cryptographic hash? With IP addresses, you have a heirarchy: You match on a prefix to find the router to handle the next path, and that one matches on a longer prefix to find the next hop, and so on.

That allows you to have routing tables that don't include every single host on the internet. This is what allows efficient routing to happen.

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