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Re: All better now (Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter: fail)

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Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> writes:

> On Fri, 04 Sep 2015, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.hardware, 
> Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> 
>> Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> writes:
> 
>>> Paranoia on the part of the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).
> 
>> This is nonsense.  SSL/TLS work fine over NAT.
> 
> Yes, I should have written "Paranoia on the part of the website, relating
> to SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)"
> 
> For your edification, yes, SSL normally does work over NAT and through
> tunnels like TOR.   HOWEVER, I have seen multiple instances when it
> failed because the website author went beyond what is normal for
> security.  About four years ago, the website run by the company I worked
> for stopped working with a NATed setup.  The site was run by the
> corporate office, but as I was a manager in one of the divisions, I was
> able to ask WTF.  It was an extra security step added in the page,
> apparently some type of scripting that encoded local IPs and included
> that in a cookie type of response.  I'm not a web programmer, so I don't
> know the details of "how", much less how it could operate with clients
> running various O/S, but I got the impression that it wasn't all that
> reliable.   Since then, I've seen the same type of problem on several
> other sites - mostly defense industry related, but also at least one
> (local) on-line retail site.

Thanks for the details and anecdotal evidence, Moe.  I've only
recently started to use masquerade/NAT occasionally (so there may
indeed be some setup error that only shows up under particular
circumstances) and the instance of which I complained was my very first
attempt to interact with an "on-line shopping" site.

The only other site where I need verifiable security works with my
newer-but-still-very-old-browser so NAT hasn't come into it.

I'll have to ask on my local LUG mailing list if anyone has run into
this or has detailed knowledge of the problem.

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter: fail Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-08-12 03:03 -0300
  Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter: fail Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2015-08-12 20:36 +0000
    Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter: fail Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-08-13 04:19 -0300
      Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter: fail Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2015-08-13 21:17 +0000
        Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter: fail Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-08-15 02:26 -0300
          Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter: fail Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2015-08-16 00:45 +0000
            Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter: fail Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-08-16 00:43 -0300
              Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter: fail Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2015-08-16 20:09 +0000
            Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter: fail Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-08-16 01:41 -0300
              Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter: fail Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2015-08-16 20:10 +0000
                Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter: fail Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-08-16 22:28 -0300
                Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter: fail Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-16 22:48 -0400
                Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter: fail Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-08-17 03:35 -0300
                Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter: fail Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-08-17 03:22 -0300
                Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter: fail Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2015-08-17 23:50 +0000
                Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter: fail Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-08-18 16:16 -0300
                Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter: fail Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2015-08-21 03:31 +0000
                Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter: fail Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-08-25 01:58 -0300
                Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter: fail Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2015-08-27 02:28 +0000
                All better now (Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter: fail) Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-09-03 18:53 -0300
                Re: All better now (Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter: fail) Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2015-09-04 20:00 +0000
                Re: All better now (Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter: fail) Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-09-04 21:09 +0100
                Re: All better now (Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter: fail) Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-09-04 23:14 -0300
                Re: All better now (Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter: fail) Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2015-09-05 10:08 +0100
                Re: All better now (Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter: fail) Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2015-09-05 18:08 +0000
                Re: All better now (Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter:  fail) Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-09-06 01:31 -0300
                Re: All better now (Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter:  fail) Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2015-09-06 19:17 +0000
                Re: All better now (Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter:   fail) Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-09-17 01:26 -0300
                Re: All better now (Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter:   fail) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-09-17 05:53 +0000
                Re: All better now (Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter:    fail) Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-09-17 04:02 -0300
                Re: All better now (Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter:    fail) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-09-17 18:02 +0000
                Re: All better now (Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter:     fail) Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-09-18 02:05 -0300
                Re: All better now (Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter:    fail) Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2015-09-17 19:14 +0000
                Re: All better now (Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter:    fail) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-09-18 01:55 +0000
                Re: All better now (Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter:    fail) Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2015-09-18 21:22 +0000
                Re: All better now (Re: Talk to modem with USB to serial adapter:   fail) Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> - 2015-09-17 19:12 +0000

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