Spent some time reading up on SSL and how it defends against against the ‘man-in-the-middle‘ attack. All the pieces to the puzzle were there in my previous post – I just needed a good reference on the protocol. The best references I found were: Introduction to SSL An Overview of SSL (version 2) (Thanks Craig) […]
Checking out Charles Web Debugging Proxy while I’m having a bit of a look under of the hood of SSL-Explorer. Snooping on an a SSL session works straight out of the box. Must be using a ‘man-in-the-middle‘ method to sit between me an the SSL website. Yet, when I access https://www.amazon.com via Charles Proxy I […]
My previous post Remote Desktop + SSH/Putty covered one approach for accessing your home PC via a strong security, strong encryption SSH tunnel. SSL-Explorer from 3SP also looks like a very simple way to remotely access your PC. I first heard of this project when it was mentioned on Steve Gibson’s ‘Security Now!’ podcast (episode […]
Update (26-Jul-2009): This article is now a little outdated. The table now has some extra columns. Have a look at Loading GeoNames Data Into SQL Server 2008 by EdKatibah for an up-to-date approach. I’ve successfully imported the newest allCountries.txt with the following steps: UNIX2DOS to update the line endings of AllCountries.txt Same nant script below […]