Say Alice wants to open up an HTTPS connection to Bob through a proxy named Earl.
What prevents Earl from reading alices request, opening a connection pretending to be bob, and then opening a https connection with bob pretending to be Alice , and snooping on the traffic as it passes through ?
This is a good question, I dont know who would downvote that.
ELI5: Alice and bob have an aunt that knows them both and has an unfakeable voice recognition service that allows both to verify who they really speak to.
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This is a good question, I dont know who would downvote that.
ELI5: Alice and bob have an aunt that knows them both and has an unfakeable voice recognition service that allows both to verify who they really speak to.