[funsec] man in the middle over VOIP

Fred Cohen fred.cohen at all.net
Tue Sep 13 06:04:17 CDT 2005


All cryptographic systems have the potential for MITM attacks at some  
point in the process. Can we please move on to some humor - and is  
there a way to get the list as a digest instead of individual emails?  
I like to laugh all at once and when I have a need to instead of on a  
push basis.

FC

On Sep 13, 2005, at 3:59 AM, Les Bell wrote:

> Dan Kaminsky wrote:
>
>
>> SSH is vulnerable to MITM because even when people are warned, they
>> still connect anyway.  (Great study was done, maybe someone can  
>> find the
>> link...they displayed SSL error messages to a bunch of customers  
>> of some
>> New Zealand banking site...only 1/300 refused to use the connection.)
>>
>
> So . . you're saying . . . that stupidity is the enemy of security?
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