When a user employs a client-side digital certificate to authenticate to a web server through
Secure Socket Layer (SSI.), confidentiality is MOST vulnerable to which of the following?
A.
IP spoofing
B.
Man-in-the-middle attack
C.
Repudiation
D.
Trojan
Explanation:
A Trojan is a program that gives the attacker full control over the infected computer, thus allowing
the attacker to hijack, copy or alter information after authentication by the user. IP spoofing will not
work because IP is not used as an authentication mechanism. Man-in-the-middle attacks are not
possible if using SSL with client-side certificates. Repudiation is unlikely because client-side
certificates authenticate the user.