full-disclosure - Re: How to prevent HTTPS MitM

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Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:00:57 +0400
From: gremlin@...mlin.ru
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: How to prevent HTTPS MitM

On 17-Jan-2013 21:56:53 +0100, Luigi Rosa wrote:

 > 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?

Yes, but that most likely will cut your Internet connection on
the inspection proxy.


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