GPG agent for W32

Matthias Urlichs smurf at noris.de
Mon May 14 09:14:01 CEST 2001


Hi,

Dirk Meyer:
> Allow me to object, this is not secure.
> If an attacker can sent a router to you,
> he can send packges with destination "127.0.0.1" to you and
> connect to your services.
> 
"If". In most cases, that's a somewhat strong "if".

The attacker would also have to find a system that's vulnerable to this
kind of attack. Linux isn't. Neither would be a *BSD box (mentioned as
vulnerable in this article) with an appropriately-configured packet
filter.

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