subjective names and MITM
Mike McNally
m5 at dev.tivoli.com
Fri Oct 6 08:43:58 PDT 1995
hfinney at shell.portal.com writes:
> m5 at dev.tivoli.com (Mike McNally) writes:
> >hfinney at shell.portal.com writes:
> > > There is a difference between a MITM and the case you describe ...
>
> >Seems to me that the idea of "communicating with the person you think
> >you are" is intractably difficult if you're not sitting in the same
> >room. ...
>
> I can certainly agree with the attractive simplicity of this notion. My
> point is that it is practically useless. ...
Oddly enough, it seems to me that Hal (if that really *is* his name)
and I (and Carl & others) are saying basically the same things, but
drawing completely different conclusions. Strange. I'm willing to
wait to see what the peer review process concludes.
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