This is pure speculation, but what are the chances this change is simply an attempt to provide legal cover what they might have started doing 50 versions ago?[1]
Ah but what you are interpreting in layman english is actually a term of art in marketing that means "this will change as soon as it becomes more profitable to do that".
One funny thing about Mersenne primes is that, as a result of what you describe, they are exactly those primes whose binary representation consists of a prime number of ones!
The smallest Mersenne prime, three, is binary 11, while the next largest is seven (111), then 31 (11111), then 127 (1111111). The next candidate, 2047 (11111111111), is not prime.
> the SSH certificates issued by the Cloudflare CA include a field called ValidPrinciples
Having implemented similar systems before, I was interested to read this post. Then I see this. Now I have to find out if that really is the field, if this was ChatGPT spellcheck, or something else entirely.
It depends... ssh-keygen -L displays the fields as Principals (which are set using the -n parameter) and internally a lot of the OpenSSH code talks about AuthorizedPrincipals...
> I am a simple sole, ... go back to the halcyon early days of the web before Netscape dropped the JS-bomb. You know HTML for the layout and CSS for the style.
I am not sure if this is intended as humor, but JavaScript came before CSS.
I remember when CSS Zen garden was showcasing what you can do with CSS, and browsers (well, "browser", singular, as there was basically only IE 6 back then) supported Javascript and VBScript.
It seems JavaScript was first released, just internally, in May 1995 in a pre-alpha version of Netscape 2.0. It would not be publicly announced until December 1995. Netscape 2.0 didn't even come out until March 1996 and even then it was language version 1.0 which was extremely defective. The first version of the language that actually worked was JavaScript 1.1 that came out in August 1996. CSS on the other hand first premiered with IE3 that came out in August 1996.
The distinction either way is trivial, because at that time nobody was using either CSS or JavaScript as they required proprietary APIs. There was no DOM specification at that time.
JavaScript was created by Brendan Eich in just 10 days in May 1995 while he was working at Netscape Communications Corporation
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) was introduced later than JavaScript. The first CSS specification was published in December 1996 by Håkon Wium Lie and Bert Bos.
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