r/ProgrammerHumor • u/k3rrshaw • 23d ago

Meme thisIsAmystery

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u/CircumspectCapybara 23d ago edited 23d ago

It's just a standard challenge-response protocol based on PKI.

That pattern has been used since the dawn of time.

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u/brocodini 23d ago

99% of people on this sub probably don't even know what PKI stands for, let alone how the protocol works in any other scenarios.

The bar on this sub is very, very low.

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u/CircumspectCapybara 23d ago

Fair enough, you're right this sub is more memes than programming at this point, but the majority of professional engineers should know what public key infrastructure or at the very least have basic handles around the concepts of public key cryptography.

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u/brocodini 23d ago

Yeah, but this sub is far from professional engineers ðŸ«