Securing and Scaling the Open Web: SSL, TLS, Tor, HTTP/3, WebRTC and the Fediverse

The next chapter of the protocol story: SSL from Netscape's 1994 basement to TLS today (ByteByteGo, PowerCert, Computerphile, MIT's lecture), how Tor's onion routing protects the open net's privacy, Let's Encrypt's free-certificate mission to make HTTPS universal, the reinvention of HTTP as HTTP/3 over QUIC, WebRTC putting real-time video in every browser without a server — and ActivityPub's federated, open social web.

Playlist by @open_protocols_docs

10 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. SSL, TLS, HTTP, HTTPS Explained — PowerCert Animated Videos
2. SSL, TLS, HTTPS Explained — ByteByteGo
3. How TOR Works- Computerphile — Computerphile
4. Transport Layer Security (TLS) - Computerphile — Computerphile
5. 14. SSL and HTTPS — MIT OpenCourseWare
6. Let's Encrypt Explained: Free SSL — That DevOps Guy
7. HTTP/1 to HTTP/2 to HTTP/3 — ByteByteGo
8. HOW QUIC WORKS - Intro to the QUIC Transport Protocol — Chris Greer
9. WebRTC in 100 Seconds // Build a Video Chat app from Scratch — Fireship
10. Distributed social media - Mastodon & Fediverse Explained — Simply Explained