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

[Tao Effect]

You see, Mutlu, HTTPS and PKI has nothing to do with secure messaging, or isn’t that clear? ;-)

- Greg


> On Dec 7, 2015, at 4:56 PM, U.Mutlu <for-gmane at mutluit.com> wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
> 
> --
> U.Mutlu
> 
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