Re: security features.... (Re: Facts, please)

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Robert Sayre wrote:
> On 9/19/06, Harald Alvestrand <harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Robert Sayre wrote:
>> >
>> > I don't disagree. The IETF might first try to design an authentication
>> > feature worth requiring. None of the current options are at all
>> > satisfactory.
>>
>> In fact TLS + HTTP Basic Auth is pretty interoperable, secure against
>> quite a few attacks, and widely deployed.
> 
> Ah, this is the "wink, wink" approach to mandatory authentication.
> Specify something no one uses. Here is my bank's web site:
> <http://www.chase.com/>. It looks like a phishing attack.

If you try https://www.chase.com it redirects you to
http://www.chase.com.  How lame.

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