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Re: [cobalt-security] self issue of certificates



Jelmer Jellema wrote:

> By the way. I read something about the auth part of the https connection
> starting *before* the ssl-encryption was established, thush sending the
> apache auth password unencrypted, only to start encrypting right after?
> Maybe I misunderstood? (hope so).

Cobalt assures me the encrypted session is started before the password
is sent; but the browser doesn't update until after the login window
goes away.

This looks to be true but I haven't done anything to "prove" it.

Jeff
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