[Opensims-developer] Network notary system thwarts man-in-the-middle attacks

[whurley <wh...@ie...>]

Hey everyone,

There's an interesting article here:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080826-network-notary-system-thwarts-man-in-the-middle-attacks.html

Basically, a new system devised by Carnegie Mellon University
researchers aims to thwart man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks by
providing a way to verify the authenticity of self-signed
certificates. The system, which is called Perspectives, uses a
distributed network of "notary" servers to evaluate the public key of
a target destination so that its validity can be ascertained.

This may or may not be something worth checking into to see if it
could help secure the data flow in openSIMS from these types of
attacks.

ttys,
whurley


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