Bold Assertion: there are no Men in the Middle

Adam Shostack adam at lighthouse.homeport.org
Mon Apr 29 23:35:44 PDT 1996


	Eavesdropping prevention is important, and is an important
feature that PGP provides.  If a MITM can subvert the privacy, but not
the authenticity of the data, PGP becomes pretty pathetic.

Adam

bryce at digicash.com wrote:

| I still have a strong intuition that I could keep my cash if
| I made such a proposal and gave it a few simple stipulations
| (such as that the attacker would have to forge important
| material in the victim's name rather than just use the
| attack to eavesdrop...).  The successful attacker would


-- 
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
					               -Hume







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