Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down
James A. Donald
jamesd at echeque.com
Wed Jun 4 16:25:29 PDT 2003
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James A. Donald
> > Or to say the same thing in different words -- why can't
> > HTTPS be more like SSH? Why are we seeing a snow storm
> > of scam mails trying to get us to login to e-g0ld.com?
Eric Rescorla
> Because HTTPS is designed to let you talk to people you've
> never talked before, which is an inherently harder problem
> than allowing you to talk to people you have.
In attempting to solve the hard problem, it fails to make
provision for solving the easy problem.
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