Quiz Entry - updated: 2026.07.30
What are the standard ports for HTTP, HTTPS and SSH, with peg words?
80 → vase; 443 → arrow · rum; 22 → nun.

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 · 43→ arrow · 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.