Maybe you have already read the news that it is possible to subvert SSL which is used to improve the security when connecting to websites. Financial sites like PayPal and Bank of America, shopping sites like eBay or Amazon and government sites use SSL which is shown by displaying https in the browser’s address bar [...]
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Perspectives Makes Firefox That Much Securer
Perspectives is a research project to improve SSH-style Host Authentication with Multi-path Network Probing by researchers of the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University. The title of their research surely sounds scary for many Internet users but it basically means that they have created a method to authentic hosts securely by pulling their information [...]