Who's afraid of Mallory Wolf?

[Jeroen van Gelderen]

On Tuesday, Mar 25, 2003, at 02:20 US/Eastern, Ed Gerck wrote:

>
>
> "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" wrote:
>
>> 1. Presently 1% of Internet traffic is protected by SSL against
>>     MITM and eavesdropping.
>>
>> 2. 99% of Internet traffic is not protected at all.
>
> I'm sorry, but no. The bug in MSIE, that prevented the correct
> processing of cert path restraints and which led to easy MITM
> attacks, has been fixed for some time now.  Consulting browser
> statistics sites will show that the MSIE update in question,
> fueled by the need for other security updates, is making
> good progress.

Heu? I am talking about HTTPS (1) vs HTTP (2). I don't see how the MSIE 
bug has any effect on this.

-- 
Jeroen C. van Gelderen - jeroen at vangelderen.org

"Be precise in the use of words and expect precision from others"
                      -- Pierre Abelard


---------------------------------------------------------------------
The Cryptography Mailing List
Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo at wasabisystems.com