E-commerce attack imminent; Sudden increase in port scanning for SSL doesn't look good. http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?NewsID=1975
... aka not necessarily an attack on SSL itself ... but identifying end-points with open SSL ports as attack targets i.e. end-points with open SSL ports are likely to be somewhat higher value targets than machines w/o SSL ports .... since the operators possibly feel they have something to protect.
I can't see any reasonable way to derive your conclusion from the cited article.
"The surge began on 15 July, the day before the public disclosure
of a critical flaw in a server module called mod_ssl. "The last time Netcraft observed similar activity was in April,
shortly before a wave of attacks on SSL servers that included the
compromise of some major e-commerce sites. Attackers used a flaw
in Microsoft's implementation of SSL to install malicious code..."--------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
