April 30th, 1997

the first time Opera's SSL implementation completed a full transaction

four months prior to this

I had to study and learn about SSL and general cryptography

The SSL support in Opera was my first assignment when I started working at Opera.

Isolate atomic structures as much possible, as well, in object oriented classes, because it made coding easier. This is very easy in C++, and I could do this using techniques I learned during my masters thesis work.

I actually got a question from Microsoft

, about them having the same problems with TLS Extensions that we had

Why develelop our own HTML parser, webpage rendering engine, our own browser, and so on? In this context, another obvius reason becomes clear, we think we can implement these things better ourselves.

April 30th the code worked well