Necessity of GPG when using SSL

Pawel Shajdo zwon at severodvinsk.ru
Fri Feb 24 19:56:36 CET 2006


On Feb 24, 2006 at 06:06 -0500, Henry Hertz Hobbit wrote:
> Last then first.  Generally, it is very difficult to intercept email
> en-transit.  That was not always the case.  There was a time when you
> had hubs and you could listen in to everything on a LAN.  Those days are
> gone with switches (multi-port bridges) making it very difficult to
> listen in on communications since the only traffic you see now at the
> LAN level is the broadcast traffic. 

Try ettercap (http://ettercap.sourceforge.net/) ;)
It allows you easily sniff traffic in the switched LAN.

Vale!
-- 
   Pawel I. Shajdo



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