Timeline for Is it necessary to enable SSL for client and server that run in same machine?
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| Aug 2, 2016 at 2:35 | answer | added | J. Cordasco | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 1, 2016 at 23:03 | vote | accept | Lee | ||
| Aug 1, 2016 at 22:19 | answer | added | sebastian nielsen | timeline score: 5 | |
| Aug 1, 2016 at 22:13 | comment | added | sebastian nielsen | @Lee: No, unless the "somebody else" also is a administrator. Packet capturing requires UAC confirmation. But as administrator, you can aswell modify the communication in-RAM, before its encrypted/after its decrypted by the SSL layer. | |
| Aug 1, 2016 at 22:01 | comment | added | Lee | Without SSL, would it be possible that somebody else remotely login with different account and modify the communication between the client and server? | |
| Aug 1, 2016 at 21:54 | comment | added | dandavis | https protects the transport of data, which should not be a problem, unless you have bigger problems in the way of data making it the few inches from one net to the other on the same machine. That said, it can't hurt security, it will hurt performance, but could protect against a couple attacks of many. | |
| Aug 1, 2016 at 21:49 | history | asked | Lee | CC BY-SA 3.0 |