>>>>> "Marcus" == Marcus J Ranum <mjr @
v-one .
com> writes:
Marcus> There are a number of such protocols in use: SWIFT is popular in
Marcus> Europe. In the US there's a thing called FIX. Many of these
Marcus> protocols, it has been "explained" to me, are secure because they
Marcus> are complicated (IBM wrote a lot of FIX, see) and therefore are not
Marcus> easily broken. Amusingly, standards bodies will sell you protocol
FIX is point-to-point encrypted, using some combo of public and private key
systems (based on PGP, last I heard). I haven't looked at the cryptography,
but folks much better at it than I am have, and they seem happy with it.
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