THE LIVING ARCHIVE

From punched cards to autonomous collaborators: the ideas, people, languages and systems that taught machines to follow—and increasingly interpret—human intent.

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SSL, TLS, and the Security Layer That Made the Web Commercial

Netscape's SSL and the IETF's TLS turned encryption, authentication, and integrity into a reusable transport layer for web traffic, creating the technical basis for HTTPS and secure network applications.

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Let’s Encrypt and ACME: Automating Trust for the HTTPS Web

Let's Encrypt combined a nonprofit certificate authority with the ACME protocol to make domain-validated TLS certificates free and automatable, shifting HTTPS deployment from a manual purchasing task toward routine infrastructure automation.

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