how can you verify that the site you get is not a fake?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Jun 6 16:55:20 UTC 2005


On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 05:15:25PM +0100, Andy Green wrote:
> Here's an idea... you expect the site to challenge YOU for your password
> before giving you access, right?  Well keep that, but register a second
> password with the site when you join it, and the site has to show it to
> you over https before you will believe it is the site that you
> originally joined ;-)

or maybe an image you upload.

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