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Carbonwind.net
Personal blog · carbonwind.net/blogsecurityprogramming
Carbonwind.net is a personal blog at carbonwind.net about security and programming. Since 2010, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on SSL/TLS tuning, including a look at cipher suite support across browsers and a benchmark of browser cipher and TLS version support. Also cited on TLS man-in-the-middle certificate swapping.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
A brief search for TLS MITM suggests to my inexperienced eye that there are indeed TLS attacks via MITM cert-swapping that the ISP can assert. --- edit. Not looking for argument. Looking for facts. - This is my top hit for 'tls mitm proxy' http://www.delegate.org/delegate/mitm/ It's dated as '06, however. - I can install Fiddler (Windows https debugger) on my machine and read https traffic in the clear. - A competen…
Comment linking /blog/post/Random-SSLTLS-101%E2%80%93SSLTLS-version-rollbacks-and-browsers.aspx
on “Gmail.com being MITM'd by Iran using this certificate”Submitted Chrome 4 Beta on Mac OS X: Anon and NULL encryption cipher suites as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou're right, I forgot the honor cipher directive. According to http://www.carbonwind.net/blog/post/A-quick-look-over-some-b... RC4+RSA is supported nearly everywhere, but it was not tested on mobile browsers. As part of my researches on SSL tuning, I'll do a benchmark of all browsers, for cipher suites and TLS versions support.
Comment linking /blog/post/A-quick-look-over-some-browsers-and-their-SSLTLS-implementations.aspx
on “Tips to accelerate SSL”Submitted Firefox Extension download process and the mess within as a story · 1 points
HN discussion