[messaging] Can a pre-shared public key prevent MITM-attacks?

[U.Mutlu]

Trevor Perrin wrote on 12/08/2015 01:42 AM:
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 4:27 PM, U.Mutlu <for-gmane at mutluit.com> wrote:
>>
>> But this means for https in practice that:
>> NONE of the security protocols used in https is secure against MITM.
>
> Hi Mutlu,
>
> Please take discussion of HTTPS elsewhere, it's off-topic for this list.
>
> Trevor

Sorry, I don't have a description about the allowed topics here,
does there exist such a thing?

What about talking SSL in general? Is that too discouraged here?


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