A Few Remarks on the Security of Internet Applications

In this short publication, I present a few facts on the security of some cur­rent In­ternet applications. Since one strong focus of this conference was the us­age of the In­ternet for electronic business applications, I address two applica­tions often used in electronic business: electronic mail (E-mail) and se­cure ac­cess of web pages using the SSL protocol. It should be noted that all the facts presented in the note are well-known to security experts and not new. It might however be helpful for the ordinary of electronic commerce to become more aware of some security-related problems of the Internet.