SSL and Malicious Hardware/Software

[Arcane Jill]

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From: owner-cryptography at metzdowd.com [mailto:owner-cryptography at metzdowd.com] 
On Behalf Of Ryan Phillips
Sent: 28 April 2008 23:13
To: Cryptography
Subject: SSL and Malicious Hardware/Software

> I can't think of a great way of alerting the user,

I would be alerted immediately, because I'm using the Petname Tool Firefox 
plugin.

For an unproxied site, I get a small green window with my own choice of text in 
it (e.g. "Gmail" if I'm visiting https://mail.google.com). If a proxy were to 
insert itself in the middle, that window would turn yellow, and the message 
would change to "(untrusted)".


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