full-disclosure - Re: How to prevent HTTPS MitM

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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:14:32 +0100
From: Jann Horn <jannhorn@...glemail.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: How to prevent HTTPS MitM

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 09:56:53PM +0100, Luigi Rosa wrote:
> If this message is offtopic, please excuse me.
> 
> I was reading about Nokia HTTPS MitM. Many corporate firewall can MitM HTTPS
> for content inspection and many governments do this for their reasons.
> 
> I was thinking: could it be possible to create a fake HTTPS stream to DoS the
> MitM attempt?

You could probably just capture the first packet of the SSL stream that your browser
sends for a valid request and then replay it... that's probably the easiest way.

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