Hi,

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 09:00:28PM +0200, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am So, 2003-09-07 um 23.44 schrieb Colin Watson:
> > On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 09:46:02PM +0200, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote:
> > > Am So, 2003-09-07 um 21.11 schrieb Mario Vukelic:
> > > >  You probably don't even get security fixes fo NS 4 anymore! 
> > > 
> > > Uninteresting, since one would use NS4 only with the bank's site. They
> > > don't need to hack me. They own everything I have... :-)
> > 
> > Whoa, sure it's interesting. Consider a man-in-the-middle SSL attack:
> > now somebody else owns everything you have.

You can not really mount a man-in-the-middle attack if the bank's certificate (and 
therefore the public key contained in it) has been signed by a trusted entity (eg, a 
CA).

or maybe I am wrong....


> 
> So nothing changes, I still don't own anything. :-)
> 
> I always thought with a SSL-connection the man in the middle just gets
> useless "binary trash"? Am I wrong?
> 
> Bye, Ratti
> 
> 
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