TLS Vulnerability to MITM Attack
TLS is the underlying technology used by modern browsers and web servers to encrypt data communicated between them. (Since TLS is a transport layer facility, it can be used in any other application layer protocols like SMTP, POP, etc, in addition to HTTP.) While the encryption itself has been regarded as “secure enough” by online banking services (encryption relying on 4096-bit public key as of 2009), among others, there is another type of attack which is independent of the strength…