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RE: RPC over HTTP security

Subject: RE: RPC over HTTP security
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:52:33 -0500
I believe the RPC over only works over httpS.  Not positive, but I
think.  

Microsoft at least decided to make it secured by SSL.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers [mailto:bugtraq@planetcobalt.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 8:22 PM
To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
Subject: Re: RPC over HTTP security

On 2005-01-26 sf_mail_sbm@yahoo.com wrote:
We are thinking about deploying RPC over HTTP to access email from the
Internet

Ask yourself two questions:

1. Why does nobody in his right mind do RPC over untrusted networks?
2. How does bloating a protocol by encapsulating it in plain-text make
   it any better?

Regards
Ansgar Wiechers
-- 
"Those who would give up liberty for a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety, and will lose both."
--Benjamin Franklin



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