Re: sigHTTP comments?

2002-06-21 Thread Kai Kretschmann
Hi harald, At 22:20 20.06.02 -0400, you wrote: you might want to check out RFC 2660 - The Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol; this is closer to your thinking than the presently popular HTTP over TLS. I think our sigHTTP idea is different in at least these 3 points: 1) the signature is

Re: sigHTTP comments?

2002-06-21 Thread John Stracke
1) the signature is computed over either the entire HTML or only the static parts with strict conditions about the unsigned dynamic parts [...] 3) nearly nothing has to be changed on webserver or browser side to access the content, the rfc 2660 seems to make much more trouble in this

Re: sigHTTP comments?

2002-06-21 Thread Kai Kretschmann
Hi John, Am Freitag den, 21. Juni 2002, um 15:32, schrieb John Stracke: 1) the signature is computed over either the entire HTML or only the static parts with strict conditions about the unsigned dynamic parts [...] 3) nearly nothing has to be changed on webserver or browser side to

Re: sigHTTP comments?

2002-06-21 Thread John Stracke
And at least I think you are too pessimistic by the small number of interested people. I have the impression here in germany are still lots of people concerned and frightend everytime some tv magazin reports online banking bugs here and security frauds there. If everyone is complaining how

Re: sigHTTP comments?

2002-06-21 Thread Kai Kretschmann
Hi John, Am Freitag den, 21. Juni 2002, um 17:00, schrieb John Stracke: And at least I think you are too pessimistic by the small number of interested people. I have the impression here in germany are still lots of people concerned and frightend everytime some tv magazin reports online

Re: sigHTTP comments?

2002-06-21 Thread Eric Rescorla
Kai Kretschmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Did anyone read the announcement of the internet draft about sighttp last may? Any ideas, critics, comments are welcome. I did put a copy of the document to the website www.sighttp.org for further discussion. The system you describe appears to have

Re: sigHTTP comments?

2002-06-21 Thread John Stracke
He changed the login form in such a way that he was sent the one time transaction code of the money transfer and displayed an successful result by himself from the hijacked web server. The SSL certificate was of no use in this case, it even kept the user in wrong confidence. The SigHTTP would