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Guide to how fucked is SSL?

Thanks to Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Donald Stufft, David Reid, Allen Short, Zain Memon, and Chris Armstrong for review.

This is a guide for technical individuals to understand in what circumstances SSL communications are secure against an observer-in-the-middle (for all intents and purposes: the NSA).

@ianb
ianb / assert.js
Last active December 16, 2015 17:19
assert() for Javascript
function AssertionError(msg) {
this.message = msg || "";
this.name = "AssertionError";
}
AssertionError.prototype = Error.prototype;
/* Call assert(cond, description1, ...)
An AssertionError will be thrown if the cond is false. All parameters will be logged to the console,
and be part of the error.
*/
@NV
NV / Readme.md
Last active May 17, 2024 03:38
Prepend the debugger statement to a function as easy as stopBefore('Element.prototype.removeChild'). Works in Chrome DevTools and Safari Inspector, doesn’t work in Firebug‘s and Firefox Developer Tools‘ console (I don’t know why). Works as a standalone script everywhere.

stopBefore.js

2min screencast

Examples

stopBefore(document, 'getElementById')
stopBefore('document.getElementById') // the same as the previous
stopBefore(Element.prototype, 'removeChild')
@igrigorik
igrigorik / README.md
Last active December 10, 2015 02:48
Home router latency (Linksys E1550) - quick test.

Quick, take a guess, what's the first hop latency to your home wireless router?

Below 1ms, right? Yeah, you wish!

Below are results from a quick test on my home router (Linksys E1550). Some lessons learned:

  • 3-8ms median
  • very different latency tails on different channels (1,6,11)
  • running in mixed mode helps tame the long tails (do it, if you can)
  • all tests on 2.4Ghz, unfortunately E1550 can't do 5Ghz
@mbostock
mbostock / .block
Last active October 20, 2023 14:09
General Update Pattern, I
license: gpl-3.0
redirect: https://observablehq.com/@d3/selection-join
@mbostock
mbostock / .block
Last active April 6, 2023 11:58
Epicyclic Gearing
license: gpl-3.0
redirect: https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/epicyclic-gearing
@mbostock
mbostock / .block
Last active January 3, 2024 15:40
Superformula Tweening
license: gpl-3.0