Bob Relyea wrote:

yes it does. If you can't trust you've made a connection to the site you thought you made a connection to, you have no security. Saying you do is like saying "I'm secure because I have an RF shielded cable running from my computer".

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There is a growing myth at you can get most of the security you want by using unauthenticated encrypted pipes. This myth has been enhanced by such systems as SSH, PGP, and use of self-signed certs. These tools --
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Bob, You posted this is a subthread of a subthread.  This thread has
gotten so deep that my mozilla news reader cannot properly show the
thread tree for it.  So, if you want to continue this topic, please
start a new thread with a new topic and repost it.  Thanks.

oh, and s/clammer/clamor/

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Nelson B
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