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40 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know
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40 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know

by Imran Ahmad
June 2020
Intermediate to advanced
382 pages
11h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to prevent MITM attacks

Let's explore how we can prevent MITM attacks by introducing a CA to the organization. Let's say the name of this CA is myTrustCA. The digital certificate has its public key, named PumyTrustCA, embedded in it. myTrustCA is responsible for signing the certificates for all of the people in the organization, including Alice and Bob. This means that both Bob and Alice have their certificates signed by myTrustCA. When signing their certificates, myTrustCA verifies that they are indeed who they claim to be.

Now, with this new arrangement in place, let's revisit the sequential interaction between Bob and Alice:

  1. Bob is using {PrBob, PuBob} and Alice is using {PrAlice, PuAlice}. Both of their public keys are embedded ...

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ISBN: 9781789801217