? (Otherwise, SSL would not even come
into the picture.)
No, the attacker interferes with the very first connect to www.amazon.com,
probably at the DNS level, and that's almost always done plaintext.
-Bram Cohen
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bram Cohen writes:
In the vast majority of cases, preventing man in the middle attacks is a
waste of time.
In the sense that, in the vast majority of communications, there is no
man in the middle attack being mounted?
Yes.
Couldn't
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Arnold G. Reinhold wrote:
I read the Massey and Maurer paper (One can find it at
http://www.isi.ee.ethz.ch/publications/isipap/umaure-mass-inspec-1993-
1.pdf ) and I have a couple of comments on it.
This is just silly. There's nothing wrong with Rijndael.
-Bram Cohen
whether the key
is okay
or not. It makes it possible for a person to have one key for everything."
Yeah,
I know: It sounds a little far out. But then, I used to think e-cash sounded
pretty far out too.
Thank you Tom Wu for already inventing SRP so no other joker can patent
it.
-Bram Cohen
, or some nut will unleash
a nanotech self-replicator or an engineered micro-organism
to doom the human race.
It would have to compete with these already highly competitive nanotech
self-replicators we call 'bacteria'.
-Bram Cohen
such an incredibly careless and political approach
to science are no concern of theirs.
-Bram Cohen
