Abso-#*$!-lutely awesome!

Do take the time to checkout:
The Illustrated TLS Connection [tls.ulfheim.net], Every byte of a TLS connection explained and reproduced.

By far the make it obvious easiest explanation by hand held walk through of a TLS connection I've ever come across.
Note: do click the 'annotations' button for each :)
Note: I thought the above was implicitly obvious but a couple folks I shared the link with...