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What are the standard ports for HTTP, HTTPS and SSH, with peg words?

80 → vase; 443 → arrow · rum; 22 → nun.

An arrow shot clean through a rum bottle — HTTPS on port 443, chunked 4 · 43 → arrow · rum.

A port is a 16-bit "door number" (0–65535) that lets one machine run many network services at once; the low range 0–1023 holds the well-known ports that IANA assigns to standard services, so every browser and server agrees where to knock.

  • 80 — plain, unencrypted HTTP → vase (/v/·/s/, the two-digit peg for 80).
  • 443 — HTTPS, HTTP wrapped in TLS encryption so nobody in between can read or tamper with the traffic. Chunk 4 · 43arrow · rum: an arrow shot clean through a rum bottle.
  • 22 — SSH, encrypted remote login and file transfer → nun (/n/·/n/, the two-digit peg for 22), quietly disciplined like good security.

From Quiz: MAJOR / Computer Science Numbers | Updated: Jul 30, 2026