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Re: NSURLConnection and self-signed certs?
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Re: NSURLConnection and self-signed certs?


  • Subject: Re: NSURLConnection and self-signed certs?
  • From: Miro Jurišić <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 22:05:40 -0400

I also realize that it is of course preferred to only access sites with validly signed/trusted certificates, but a) in practice, we don't always have that option with sites that are out there and b) even without the valid cert, those sites still provide encryption of the data in transit (yes?).

Yes, but that's not useful. Assume you are sending an important piece of information to a specific recipient. You need to know that a. you are talking to the right person and b. noone else can intercept the data in transit. If you abandon certificate verification, you abandon part a. -- which means that you could be transmitting the very important data to _anyone whatsoever_.

meeroh


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