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The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection

In the first 220 milliseconds, a lot of interesting stuff happened to make Firefox change the address bar color and put a lock in the lower right corner. With the help of Wireshark, a network tool, and a slightly modified debug build of Firefox, we can see exactly what's going on. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yWpMoJfsMyTXVXenjoWCbY-3EDs/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yWpMoJfsMyTXVXenjoWCbY-3EDs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yWpMoJfsMyTXVXenjoWCbY-3EDs/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/yWpMoJfsMyTXVXenjoWCbY-3EDs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/digg/popular/~4/fPXli8rOZb8" height="1" width="1"/>