While public-key crypto can seem an unalloyed benefit to the networked world, close examination of the details of the last two sections shows a dangerous gap between a casual statement of the properti...While public-key crypto can seem an unalloyed benefit to the networked world, close examination of the details of the last two sections shows a dangerous gap between a casual statement of the properties of these cryptographic tools and their reality. This section explores a scenario called the "man-in-the-middle attack".
