Signing a key (meaning)

[MFPA]

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Hi


On Monday 11 April 2011 at 11:49:10 PM, in
<mid:4DA38566.4030401 at grant-olson.net>, Grant Olson wrote:


> I don't think it counts as the middle if you have
> access to the email account.

> If I've got your logon info, and I'm accessing your
> account that way, it's no longer invisible when I try
> to quickly delete the original message and throw up a
> fake replacement.  You might see a message hit the
> inbox, get deleted, and see a similar one pop up from
> your mail client.  And if you reply to the forged
> message, I can't stop that from going out into the
> world to trick the other party.

That's all fair enough, but I still think the standard MITM attack is
an example of "some hypothetical exploit by some hypothetical attacker
compromises your communications."


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