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    PKI: The beautiful mess of digital trust (and why nothing works properly)¶

    Let’s talk about Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), the system that should make secure communication effortless but instead feels like a Rube Goldberg machine held together by duct tape and expired certificates.

    PKI is a necessary disaster

    • Certificates, chaos, and why your IoT toaster shouldn’t have HTTPS
    • Internal PKI
    • Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)
    • Let’s Encrypt
    • TLS/SSL
    2026-04-01 20:54
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