tcp/routing question...

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, bruce wrote:

> which is what i've been driving at...
>
> which i'm also believing is a reasonably good sized market... particularly
> if you can get homeland security to buy into the fact that terrorists are
> making $$$ with phishing/pharming scams!!

dhs doesn't care. law enforcement on thewhole is prinicipaly involved 
after you lose money, not before. regulatory agencies set standards and 
occasionaly enforce their implementation.

> you see matt, i've never looked at this as a purely tech issue with the
> underlying protocols... but you need some way for the avg user to really be
> able to tell.. that the site he's on, is the one he should be on.. in a
> similar vein.. you need to be able to do the same thing from the server side
> as well...

Proving identity means demonstrating uniqueness... the only reliable 
methods from demonstrating uniqueness and therefore identity on the 
internet revolve around strong crypto.

> -bruce
>
>
>
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> On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 10:27:08AM -0700, bruce wrote:
>> however, the issue with phishing has demonstrated that just having ssl is
>> not enough.. so how is ipsec going to solve something differently than an
>> ssl implementation..
>
> SSL solves it adequately as far as I'm concerned. IPsec could make it more
> ubiquitous. If you're asking "how can we keep people from being gullible",
> then I'm afraid there really isn't a foolproof solution -- you know what
> they say about the ingenuity of fools.
>
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