On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Walter Neto wrote: > Can you explain-me how ssl can to be security comunicating first by the > public key, and them negociate a private key? > > If anyone can get the public key, anyone can get the private sniffing > the packs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography Hint: the private key is NOT in the packets. Cheers, Chris. -- _____ __ _ \ __/ / ,__(_)_ | Chris Wilson <0000 at qwirx.com> - Cambs UK | / (_/ ,\/ _/ /_ \ | Security/C/C++/Java/Ruby/Perl/SQL Developer | \ _/_/_/_//_/___/ | Stop nuclear war http://www.nuclearrisk.org | ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
