Re: Secure Yahoo logins

From: David Schwartz (davidsat_private)
Date: Tue Aug 27 2002 - 21:02:57 PDT

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    >>My other question is if the passwords are encrypted why do they offer a
    >>secure login
    >>option? How does that increase security, other than adding a brief ssl
    >>session.
    
    	Because otherwise a man-in-the-middle could serve you a web page that didn't 
    do any fancy hashing. ;)
    
    	DS
    



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