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What you describe is a simple man in the middle attack albeit executed in a very complicated manner. With public key encryption using SSL you have end to end se
by enterthemist 13y ago
What you describe is a simple man in the middle attack albeit executed in a very complicated manner. With public key encryption using SSL you have end to end security under two assumptions: the NSA cannot break the public key structure and that the NSA cannot fake a public certificate. The latter is resolved with public key pinning and the former is highly unlikely.