Re: Man in the Middle SSL Attack

From: Bjorn Randell (Bjorn_at_AlphaMale.me.uk)
Date: 06/24/03


Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 06:16:31 +0100


"8192" <8192@ny.com> wrote in message
news:9d50a70c.0306231937.4ced2b80@posting.google.com...
> Has there been an IE6 patch to prevent Man in the Middle SSL attacks?
> On this website: http://netscape.intelligent.net/redisa/ssl_spoof.html
> It shows that Netscape is not vulnerable to this attack.
> So, from the information that I have read so far, it seems that
> Netscape is more secure than IE6.
>
> Any comments?

Based on past performance for Internet Explorer and IIS technologies from
Microsoft, it would be safe to assume they are completely insecure. WinXP
and Win 2k have stood up well though on the security front, much better than
Linux has fared over the same time period.

-- 
Regards,
Bjorn Randell
Bjorn@AlphaMale.me.uk or ICQ #137732


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