In the day of like spies and stuff, you could encrypt a message with some algorithm and then meet someone in a park to give them your letter. With the internet, when you're sending information over the internet, that encryption key is what it's called. You can't send someone else the decryption keys because then you have to encrypt the decryption key. So what they came up with was this thing called public key cryptography. And basically how this works is that every website has both a public key and a private key.
In this episode, David sits down to explain how wanting the Pizza.Pizza domain led him down a rabbit hole to discovering some interesting facts about how the internet works. Who decides what domains are available? How much does it cost to start one? And is it true that there are seven people with special keys that control the internet? David gets to the bottom of it all! We hope you enjoy.
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