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RSA's implementation (used by BofA, among others) is called SiteKey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiteKey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiteKey These never seem
by tlrobinson 16y ago
RSA's implementation (used by BofA, among others) is called SiteKey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiteKey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiteKey
These never seemed very secure to me for the reason mentioned in that article:
The obvious flaw in the design is that a phishing site can get the correct SiteKey info from the genuine site, then serve it to the user, "proving" its legitimacy[1]. SiteKey is thus susceptible to a man-in-the-middle attack.
But at least it requires the attacker to connect to the website, which gives them opportunity to block hosts that are known or suspected to be phishing users.
- boucher 16y agoAnd of course that vulnerability would not exist here, in that the information would not web accessible, but rather only accessible to the local operating system.