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Re: "What if without TLS certificates?"

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Do you mean server certificates or client certificates?

At its core, TLS is about cryptographically securing the transferred data and having a certain level of trust about the peer's identity. These both could be achieved in a few different ways, depending on how much security you want. To reach TLS-level security, you'll still need key-pair based asymmetric cryptography, so you'd be looking at reimplementing at least some of the same algorithms and techniques that TLS libraries give you.

(Going with some non-standard solution would of course be a huge barrier for adoption.)

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2023-06-06 · 4 months ago

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❄ freezr

@skyjake I meant everything you can do with this technology: from the server side encryption to the clients ceritificates that allow anyone to have identities and use capsule like this one, thanks… 🙏

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What if without TLS certificates? — One thing I have been always wondering is what alternative we had to the TLS certificates to get the same result? Thanks... 🙏

💬 freezr · 2 comments · 2023-06-06 · 4 months ago