Am 21.03.2013 21:08, schrieb Nathan McCrina:
On 03/21/2013 04:05 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:
>
> Question: Clouds are insecure, are they not? Any person with the intent,
> and a Linux computer, has the ability to sniff passwords and other
> "private" information, doesn't s/he? Isn't this what made us so
good
> before Microsoft came into the picture. Are Clouds not a "cracker's" -
> as opposed to hackers who do not have criminal intent - haven?
Well, the idea of SSL is that you can capture all the packets you want, but you won't
be able to read the
information in the packets without the key to decrypt it. Or lots of supercomputers and
several centuries of free
time
and how does SSL help you in the case of intrusion at the
cloud-provider? hint: it does NOT
SSL/TSL = TRANSPORT layer security
as long you are only store ENCRYPTED data in the could while
only on your local machine is the private key you are safe
but this will not work with cloud based services because they
can not do much with encrypted data and so if you are feel
scure because SSL you are naive and the target of the cloud-hype