what if the hacker provided the public key for https connection? - eviltoast

So this video explains how https works. What I don’t get is what if a hacker in the middle pretended to be the server and provided me with the box and the public key. wouldn’t he be able to decrypt the message with his private key? I’m not a tech expert, but just curious and trying to learn.

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    6 months ago

    In Chromium browsers you can simply type “thisisunsafe” to bypass even HSTS failures.