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Re: Proposal to anti-phishing


From: Rogan Dawes <discard () dawes za net>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 08:58:24 +0100

Lyal Collins wrote:
To eapnd on this, there is nothing the stop the phisher capturing the entire
session (i.e MITM tunneling), even using a valid OTP token to logon, and
even a second OTP token to 'authenticate' a transaciton.
With tunneling the entire session, the attacker can easily present the user
with screens saying "transfer $200 to mum" while telling the banking site to
'transfer $1000 to joe () hacking site.somewhere"


Lyal


Exactly. And this is another reason to use SSL client certificates. Because they are invulnerable (for large numbers of invulnerable ;-) to MITM attacks.

Rogan
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