On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Richard Lynch wrote:
> But unless you paid the $200 to get it from a CA, surfers will see a nasty
> (and totally inaccurate/misleading) warning about how insecure it is.

It is easy to launch a man-the-middle attack against a session being
initiated between a client and a server with a self-signed certificate.  
You just send the client a self-signed certificate of your own, and it
can't tell it apart from the real one - same error message shows up.

miguel


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