Defending against malicious SSL proxy

2013-09-30 Thread Igor Bukanov
On the current web it is a matter of fact that a banking site should be developed under assumption that a substantial number of users use infected computers with some of them would attempt to perform a banking fraud. A real experience shows that a substantial number of those fraud attempts comes

Re: Defending against malicious SSL proxy

2013-09-30 Thread Igor Bukanov
wrote: On 30/09/13 20:35 PM, Igor Bukanov wrote: ... A real experience shows that a substantial number of those fraud attempts comes from computers where malware installs own root certificate and then install either real or transparent proxy. The access to the proxy is then sold to third parties

Re: Defending against malicious SSL proxy

2013-10-01 Thread Igor Bukanov
I don't know the details of J-Pake etc., This is a type of protocols that allows *mutual* authentication using simple passwords or other shared secrets without leaking any information about the passwords (so dictionary attacks on the captured traffic etc does not work). As a result of the

Fwd: Defending against malicious SSL proxy

2013-10-11 Thread Igor Bukanov
-- Forwarded message -- From: Igor Bukanov i...@mir2.org Date: 11 October 2013 15:02 Subject: Re: Defending against malicious SSL proxy To: Brian Smith br...@briansmith.org From a practical point of view anything that requires changes in the existing SSL infrastructure cannot