More on Firefox 3's handling of self-signed SSL certificates

One of my blogging flaws is that when I write up an entry, I can be soclose to the issue that I leave important things out because they are'obvious' to me. I did that with my recent entry about Firefox 3's handling of self-signed SSL certificates: I skippeddescribing exactly what makes Firefox 3's approach so wrong.

Firefox 3 is not wrong-headed for being cautious about self-signed SSLcertificates, because there are real concerns with them in practice. Firefox 3


Bollywood的危機

近年印度勢力逐漸入侵美國. 先是Sony Pictures 負責替《Sawaariya》海外發行, Steven Spielberg旗下的夢工場(DreamWorks)的真人電影部, 也得到印度公司的金錢資助, 脫離開派拉蒙(Paramount)自立. 而印度電影界與外國電影製作單位的合作愈來愈活躍: Rambo和加州州


次次執二攤?


圖片by《明報》

最貼近我所表達:《東方日報》
(《太陽報》與《東方》雷同)


趙碩之女僕大晒搶衫搶鏡

自 言 曾 多 次 被 「 搶 」 衫 的 袁 彌 明 , 昨 日 跟 趙 碩 之 出 席 萬 聖 節 活 動 時 , 亦 被 大 會 安 排 穿 上 一 件 對 方 嫌 棄 的 服 裝 。 對 此 袁 彌 明 直

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How self-signed certificates are a problem for browsers

I was a little harsh on Firefox 3's handling of self-signed SSLcertificates in the last entry , and in fairness Ineed to say that this is a genuinely hard problem for browsers, at leastfrom a security perspective. Let us talk about just how this is so.

First, let us start with my previous basic model of how https could work. Browsers always use SSL if possible, and theyprotect against straightforward man in the middle attacks by rememberingthe SSL certificate they saw last time, or


Blogger 與香港共享創意

典禮將於下個星期六 (25/10) 的下午舉行,當中會有一個「香港博客工作坊」,小弟將是坐上客之一,談的當然是 CC 有關的東西。

由 All Rights Reserved 變成 Some Rights Reserved,其實是一種「放手」,而這種放手對於 Blogger 有甚麼關係?暫時想到可以


辣招炒蟹




袁彌明(Erica)把口以辣見稱,估不到她連煮辣的食物也甚有心得,炮製冬蔭功湯和咖喱炒蟹絕不假手於人,即使有大師傅在旁也不用「請槍」,Erica這位烈女的確辣得有道理!

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大概這樣

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報復


潘醫生把她背上的針一一收起來的時候,杜冰即感到撕心裂肺的劇痛,那是她再一次因為看醫生而惹來加倍的痛楚。

潘醫生是她爸爸特別從國內請來澳門替她醫病的名醫,在施以針灸的時候,她的背痛確是略為減輕,但當治療結

Violence

Suppose you're going for dinner and the waitress forgets to place your order, keeping you hungry at the restaurant for thirty minutes without a good reason. What would you do? Never shall I forget the last time when the waitress tried to hide the mistake and asked me to tell her my order again "so that she could trace the dishes for me." Seizing on her mistake and her "courageous move" to deny and hide it, I rose to my feet and taught her a good lesson.

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