Re: MSN Messenger

From: David Fox (dfox138@hotmail.com)
Date: 01/05/02 

From: "David Fox" <dfox138@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 21:39:20 GMT

Thanks, Nick.

<nickd@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1010252771.29829.0.nnrp-01.3e317754@news.demon.co.uk...
> David Fox <dfox138@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > Secondly, the "chat" is not encrypted, then it leads to confidentiality
> > issue.
>
> Also bear in mind authentication and integrity. As you point out, when
you
> send an MSN message you cannot be sure it hasn't been read by an
> unauthorised party on your network, the other company's network, or
someone
> inbetween; however you also cannot be sure that the message you've
received
> is the message you were sent, or that the message you've received actually
> came from the sender it seems to come from.
>
> Apart from that MSN is fine ;)
>
> --
> "Anyone with the naivety to run IIS is, IMHO, automatically suspect when
it
> comes to doing anything technical, such as setting a clock."