On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 10:25:24PM -0600, Benjamin Tomhave wrote:
> SSL is only safe if the initial handshake is missed by the sniffer.

No, SSL is safe against sniffing and against Man-in-the-middle. Of course
for protection against MITM you need Certificates and trusted users. For
protection against sniffing, replay, mac altering you just need to use a
recent SSL or better TLS implementation and restrict your cipher suites.

Greetings
Bernd
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