Re: Hyperlink Spoofing: an attack on SSL server authentication

[Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>]

Ed Felten of Princeton presented something similar at the Dimacs
Network Threats workshop in November 96.

Frank O'Dwyer wrote:
| 
| I've written up an attack on SSL server authentication at
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| 	http://www.iol.ie/~fod/sslpaper/sslpaper.htm
| 
| As far as I am aware, this attack hasn't been written about before.
| It does not attack the SSL protocol or low-level cryptography, but works
| at a higher level in order to persuade users to connect to fake servers, 
| with the browser nonetheless giving all the usual appearances of a 
| secure session.


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