I was poking around on archive.org and notice 9 urls have been captured for the site. One of them is titled "http://findingassange.com/aes.js" which if you hover over the blue-circled date, gives you 4 separate captured pages and their timestamps.
This is what one of them looks like - https://web.archive.org/web/20161214025513/http://findingassange.com/aes.js
As I am not a programmer, I wondered if this is part of the encrypted data to be released or is standard for something else standard to websites.
An explanation would be appreciated.
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ghost_marauder ago
Read the code comments, particularly the reference to here -> https://code.google.com/archive/p/slowaes/
Well, what is aes -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard
Basically, the encryption standard that powers SSL (or your https pages). -> https://luxsci.com/blog/256-bit-aes-encryption-for-ssl-and-tls-maximal-security.html
norobotono ago
As I mentioned, I am not a programmer so therefore cannot fully grasp what is being said. It is like pointing at a page in Russian and saying understand that. That is why I asked for an explanation.
ghost_marauder ago
Simplest way I can state it without you taking a crash course in encryption is that this is a function to hide information being passed from the browser to the server and vise versa. Usually we use the secure socket layer (SSL) for that (it's why the URL here is https:// <- saying http secure, use the secure socket layer to pass http messages), but there are advantages in putting the encryption into the browser. Unfortunately, this is just the code about hiding messages, and not what messages between your machine and theirs are being sent.
I really don't want to go reverse engineering a page, so I'm leaving it at that.
norobotono ago
Thanks for that explanation.