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Re: [summary] Re: Should login pages be protected by SSL?

from [Ole Kasper Olsen] Network Security [Permanent Link]
Subject: Re: [summary] Re: Should login pages be protected by SSL?
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:12:05 +0200 
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 14:35:01 +0200, Steve Shah <sshah@risingedge.org> wrote:


Amir Herzberg asked the question of "should login pages be SSL
encrypted". The flurry of discussion can be summerized as "Yes"
with the following details:

...

2. Most people believe that a login page *should* be encrypted
   for web sites carrying important data. (e.g., financial, etc.)


Encryption is not the point. Authentication is. A login page will
never contain sensitive data anyway and as long as the form is
submitted to a secure server, the data is encrypted just fine. A
problem arises when a customer is tricked into entering credentials at
an a bogus site.

SSL/TLS has decent capability for providing authentication, however
the sad truth is (as Michael Silk noted) that a vast majority of
surfers do not understand nor read certificates. People don't even
look at the URL (many (probably very successful) scams just rely on a
semi-decent-looking link which points to an IP address).

-- 
mvh / Best Regards,
Ole Kasper Olsen
MSc Student -- NISlab / Gjøvik University College
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