On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 11:07:25AM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 07:00:22PM -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > 
> > But consider something like staging files to a web server.  The
> > information is going to be public anyway, so why encrypt it? 
> 
> The information being public isn't the problem.
> 
> But an unencrypted TCP session can be hijacked by a third party on an
> intermediate machine, afaict.

I don't think so.  I thought the authentication mechanism was used
to prevent this, outside of actual encryption of the data.

I think another poster had the details on this.

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