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This reads like an AI summary of an actual HTTPS explainer. Terms get introduced with no context - no explanation of what a certificate is or how the chain of trust works, assumes the reader knows about public key cryptography, describes six out of the seven OSI layers (RIP presentation layer) without mentioning that term at all, etc.

TBF it is titled as mediocre!

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To be fair, I also didn’t include the session layer!

My writing isn’t a strength of mine, so I appreciate the criticism. My writing going from “bad” -> “is it AI?” is progress.

I struggled with where to “cutoff” the explanation and public key cryptography seemed like a good boundary and better explained elsewhere, as did various OSI layers.

I probably should have gone over the cert and potentially the full chain of trust, I’ll give you that.

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