Re: HTTP AUTH BASIC monowall.

[Andrew Simmons <asimmons () messagelabs com>]

Simon Smith wrote:

> > Ok, so what's your alternative?

[...]

> > Some form of challenge response?  If you can already perform a man in
> > the middle attack, than challenge response is just as vulnerable. 
> > Just connect to the server when the client hits you, and pass them the
> > challenge you recieved.  Use the credential yourself, and pass them a
> > failure.  When they try again, connect them to the server.

> You're right again.  Does everyone here think that the majority of
> companies hire security aware people?


We're not talking about general staff, we're talking about your firewall 
admin. If your firewall admin doesn't care about security you've got 
much bigger problems. Which appears to be the case...


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Andrew Simmons // MessageLabs Security Team
Technical Security Consultant
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