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It goes further back than crypto: back in the day, there was the design-by-committee OSI versus the "rough consensus and running code" IETF. The result is that
by red_admiral 3y ago
It goes further back than crypto: back in the day, there was the design-by-committee OSI versus the "rough consensus and running code" IETF. The result is that while we still teach the OSI 7-layer model in universities, in practice we use TCP/IP, often with HTTP and TLS on top.