use case: TLS Man in the Middle (ACTION-73) from Thomas Roessler on 2007-01-09 (public-wsc-wg@w3.org from January 2007)

From: Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 17:50:02 +0100
To: public-wsc-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <20070109165002.GU21007@raktajino.does-not-exist.org>

Another in the "specific interactions" department.

Alice tries to connect to a web site at <https://www.example.com/>.
Her user agent's TLS implementation detects that the domain name
present in the certificate differs from www.example.com.

Regards,
-- 
Thomas Roessler, W3C  <tlr@w3.org>

Received on Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:49:23 UTC