The Power of Tunnelling: Extending Penrose Tiling Cryptography With TLS

Foreword

After seeing an amazing video by Prof Bill Buchanan OBE detailing the power of secure tunnelling it sparked my curiosity and how I could use this process with the Penrose key generator and VRF system to show how secure information can be transported between the server and a client !

Introduction

In digital communications, the principle of tunnelling is a lynchpin of modern security, encapsulating data within secure channels to traverse the treacherous landscape of the internet. This concept, rooted in the annals of cybersecurity history, is epitomized by the development and ongoing evolution of Transport Layer Security (TLS), a standard that has become synonymous with secure internet communication.

The History of TLS

The story of TLS begins with its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), conceived by Netscape in the 1990s to secure the burgeoning web. SSL’s iterations laid the groundwork for encrypted communications, but it was the advent of TLS by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in 1999 that marked a significant milestone. TLS, building upon SSL’s legacy, has been refined over the years, culminating in the robust TLS 1.3, which offers enhanced security features and…