Bill Stackpole wrote:
> Strong cryptography would imply that hijacking would not work.  However, if
> public key cryptography is used with PKI it might be possible for a
> man-in-the-middle attack to succeed.  These exploits do not involve
> hyjacking sessions.

I presume you mean "without PKI"? Anyway, if you don't know the server's
public key in advance, you can be MitMed.

Cheers,

Ben.

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