AIA took me to Tunisia
A TLS Handshake hidden mechanism confused everybody so much and I found out why. I just spent last week in Tunis, Tunisia 🇹🇳, helping a government organisation understand and troubleshoot a network/connectivity issue for what was described as “a faulty HTTPS connection”. I got to work closely with SSL/TLS (openssl), certificate chains and ultimately, made me understand a bit better the role of certificate authority. But what was quite surprising to me was that I got to learn a piece of magic inside the TLS handshake ...