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Re: Who's afraid of Mallory Wolf?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Gerck)
Tue Mar 25 15:12:12 2003
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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:55:08 -0800
From: Ed Gerck <egerck@nma.com>
To: Jeroen van Gelderen <jeroen@vangelderen.org>
Cc: Ian Grigg <iang@systemics.com>, cryptography@wasabisystems.com
Jeroen van Gelderen wrote:
> Heu? I am talking about HTTPS (1) vs HTTP (2). I don't see how the MSIE
> bug has any effect on this.
Maybe we're talking about different MSIE bugs, which is not hard to do ;-)
I was referring to the MSIE bug that affects the SSL handshake in HTTPS,
from the context in discussion. BTW, HTTP has no provision to prevent
MITM in any case -- in fact, establishing a MITM is part of the HTTP
tool box and used in reverse proxies for example.
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