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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Nobody dies of “old age”. As you become older, it is becomes harder to survive various diseases or afflictions. But where do you draw the line? If someone was to weak and fragile to leave their bed, and died due to no longer getting any energie from food, is that dying of old age? And what if they are to fragile to leave their cage?

    If one is allowed to set timespan for “execution” to “however long it takes me to die of old age”, then I argue it is also perfectly fine to take some liberty with the definition of “die of old age”.




  • Q. If you connect to google.com, how do you know you are talking to google.com, and not bing.com? A. You find the CA of the certificate that google.com send you, and you ask that CA if the certificate is valid.

    Q. How do you know that the CA is actually the CA, and not some fake actor? A. You find the CA of the CA, and ask it to validate the certificate of the CA.

    Q. How do you know that the CA of the CA is actually the CA of the CA? A. After several layers of this recursion, there is a hardcoded set of trusted certificates on your PC.

    If someone self-signs a certificate, then this chain of questions ends well before you end up with a hardcoded (and thus trusted) certificate.

    Let’s encrypt verifies that a certificate is created from a specific domain. Therefor it can tell is whether the cert belongs to a domain with certainty.