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Given the recent EFF story about AT&T shunting all their traffic through NSA computers, I would say it most certainly exists in practice. Basic encryption with
by __david__ 16y ago
Given the recent EFF story about AT&T shunting all their traffic through NSA computers, I would say it most certainly exists in practice. Basic encryption with no authentication doesn't hold up at all to directed attacks, but it would definitely help with big siphoning attacks that are actually happening right now.
- tptacek 16y agoMITM attacks don't have to be directed. It's not technically challenging to mass-MITM a channel --- but you probably wouldn't do that, because you can just pick "interesting" connections (like, to Google Mail) to intercept.