Collaborate Disseminate
I recently learned that there are plenty of services on the internet that offer/list free public proxies (freeproxylists.net, hidemyass.com, proxyscrape.com to name a few). Is this safe? Can’t an attacker easily connect to multiple of thes… Continue reading Can’t free proxies be used to create a botnet?
I’ve read online that SYN flooding is when "the attacker sends repeated SYN packets to every port on the targeted server." However, HTTPS only runs on port 443. Therefore, why is it productive for an attacker to target "ever… Continue reading If HTTPS only runs on a single port, why is SYN flooding an issue?
Can the same public key be used with RSA, Elliptic Curve, or other asymmetric encryptions algorithms? If not, how is a public key bound to a X.509 Certificate? Presumably, you’d have to know the algorithmic choice before determine a public… Continue reading How can you bind a public key to a certificate if the public key depends on the choice of algorithms?
My understanding is that a Certificate Authority uses an applicant’s CSR to issue the applicant’s server a signed certificate. However, the CSR is encrypted, so how is the CA able to use it?
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