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No, https works because we already agreed upon on one authority and one protocol and it’s called ICANN and DNS respectively. This could be done with radio too
by thrashh 3y ago
No, https works because we already agreed upon on one authority and one protocol and it’s called ICANN and DNS respectively.
This could be done with radio too but we don’t because a typical website transfers hundreds of megabytes and the traffic involved in negotiating an encrypted connection is a drop in the bucket, whereas with most radio traffic, it would comprise a much higher percentage of all your radio traffic.
Plus your average radio equipment has a tiny CPU (although this is changing) whereas your phone or desktop computer has hundreds of gigaflops to do all the encryption and decryption math that you want and then still draw a gif.