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Re:HTTPS Explained with Carrier Pigeons on Monday January 02, 2023 @09:47AM (#34218393)
Not exactly as you describe, but very similar and still a good explanation of simple key exchange is [1]. However I believe (Its a long time since college for me...) Diffie Helman as mentioned elsewhere is a bit more complex [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U62S8SchxX4 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa4osob1XOk

Re:Ask HN: Is the Hacker News source code public? on Thursday August 12, 2021 @09:30AM (#28156051)
Simplicity. Clean HTML ("rendered" server side), straight forward CSS and little JavaScript.
If you want to acheive something approaching the latency advantages of WebRTC with HLS its well worth checking out the low latency HLS work by Apple and the wider video-dev community.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/http_live_streamin... https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos-hls-rfc8216bis-08

Re:Facebook paid £4,327 corporation tax in the UK in 2014 on Monday October 12, 2015 @07:10AM (#10373731)
In the UK employers have to pay a "National Insurance" Contribution on top of the employee's contribution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Insurance

Re:UK anti-encryption law on Thursday July 12, 2012 @02:52PM (#4236043)
How does/would this affect Freenet users? As far as I know, a Freenet user's 'deniability' claim comes from the idea that the user does not know the key to the encrypted content hosted on their machine.