-------- In message <867etyzlad....@desk.des.no>, =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= w rites: >Gordon Tetlow <gor...@tetlows.org> writes: >> Assertion of identity and encryption in transit are separate issues. [...] > >You can't have the latter without the former. Assertion of identity is >the only protection against MITM eavesdropping or tampering.
Or more generally: If you dont/cant trust the other end, why would you trust them to keep the communication secret ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
