this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2023
113 points (96.7% liked)
It's a Unix System, I know this!
224 readers
1 users here now
It's a Unix system, I know this!
For pictures of completely wrong or overly fake tech in media!
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I guess I foolishly assumed she was doing her own encryption over https or something (I have no idea if that's even possible. I've taken one network security class)
HTTPS is content encryption (and in part authentication of the server-side if you think CA's are trustworthy), and resides at network layer 7 (application level). The IP is a destination address at network layer 3, used to send packet PDU's (which contents may be encrypted by the layers above in the stack). If you garble (by f.ex. "encrypting") the IP address that you will be receiving response packets at, you're just not going to receive any packets.