The real problem that https has conspicuously failed to fix

I keep posting "you cannot do this using https", and people keep = replying "yes you can" No you cannot, cause if you could, paypal, e-gold, e-bay, and the rest = would not be suffering from the problem illustrated by scam mails such = as the following (When you hit the submit button, guess what

Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

ame user as last time. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG q1a1Whb1YeRws7qoDm6h15qfDstFHciUyP2I4fte 42lCFXf0IqXfh5Mz2mFtznxv6N40EuqpKvQJhLBgS

Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

e been key administrator for several companies, and have unfailingly found that I was the only person capable of doing these operations at that company. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG v6gZFuZoUgyGH55ME+JoilJSfw5LrufrbWWB454U 4FhiB65yyXwp1RgeJrLADfEYBoqz0YAch8fJ0Fisp

Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

-- James A. Donald: > > Certificate caching is not the problem that needs solving. > > The problem is all this spam attempting to fool people into > > logging in to fake BofA websites and fake e-gold websites, > > to steal their passwords or credit card numbers On

Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

-- James A. Donald > > Or to say the same thing in different words -- why can't > > HTTPS be more like SSH?Why are we seeing a snow storm > > of scam mails trying to get us to login to e-g0ld.com? Eric Rescorla > Because HTTPS is designed to let you talk to peo

Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

private keys, and the networks are setup to rely on shared secrets because there is no practical alternative. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG r9lUivpSt7tWiPOxVr17a9sjkgXnnbC5matqsa6/ 4UovWiFVbzH8bFEhVsekeydmrrDmez+5/B/3ZSo4B

Micropayments finally taking off.

;s schemes, perhaps other people's similar schemes. The fact that e-gold does not know what is going on suggests that past attempts to support micropayments failed by putting too great a burden on those seeking to participate. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwv

Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

-- James A. Donald > > > > Or to say the same thing in different words -- why > > > > can't HTTPS be more like SSH?Why are we seeing a > > > > snow storm of scam mails trying to get us to login to > > > > e-g0ld.com? Eric Rescor

Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

-- On 3 Jun 2003 at 15:04, James A. Donald wrote: > I never figured out how to use a certificate to authenticate > a client to a web server, how to make a web form available to > one client and not another. Where do I start? > > What I and everyone else does is use a s

Re: Looting of museums, banks, shops, factories--South Central LA writ large

army wipes out all police everywhere in a nation of welfare bums. That was not the plan, that was an extremely violent reaction to a close brush with disaster. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG da5or2d54+B0YDDe+XcGf9u1Q6Ci33/LFTfqvsPL 4f3E7kWr1ciIuU7/AuIEAxqt3sNcy9/5WE+dIOkBV

Re: Looting of museums, banks, shops, factories--South Central LA writ large

s will cease to exist, but small private practices should be resuming soon, a quite satisfactory outcome unless you happen to be seriously injured during the fall of the regime. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG ex1HQoJ2kYJwSMyp5TBLhzTH+6qqw

Just how bad patents have become.

ese things with lawsuits. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG Lc/zfuFetUbub2/wHcv0ZE511Jiw8hM3TcX57mTw 44D97DUCfLM+KrrFiIWdcFN8qmy+uzJn0coyJnfbz - We have the right to defend ourselv

Re: Secure Instant Messaging

le that this could be changed, that I was being absurdly naive in thinking that merely because the existing provisions in the standard were unusable that there was some prospect for changing them. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVp