Jim Gettys wrote: > > But aren't there security benefits to having separate ports (e.g., making it > > possible to run your secure server in a separate process)? > > No: the problem is that establishing a connection to a separate port > allows for man-in-the-middle attacks at connection establishment times; OK, got it. Thanks for the explanation. -- /=============================================================\ |John Stracke | My opinions are my own | S/MIME & HTML OK | |francis@ecal.com|============================================| |Chief Scientist | NT's lack of reliability is only surpassed | |eCal Corp. | by its lack of scalability. -- John Kirch | \=============================================================/Received on Tuesday, 29 June 1999 18:10:35 UTC
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