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RE: Security tool for monitoring HTTPS traffic? Feb 25 2004 10:18AM
John Reilly (JReilly eSpatial com) (3 replies)
Re: Security tool for monitoring HTTPS traffic? Feb 26 2004 11:29AM
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Re: Security tool for monitoring HTTPS traffic? Feb 26 2004 11:26AM
Thomas Chiverton (thomas chiverton bluefinger com)
Re: Security tool for monitoring HTTPS traffic? Feb 26 2004 11:26AM
Thomas Chiverton (thomas chiverton bluefinger com)
On Wednesday 25 Feb 2004 10:18 am, John Reilly wrote:
> > Are they products they can look inside HTTPS traffic? Some
> > customers doesn't
> > trust HTTPS traffic going inside the company over the proxy!
>
> There is no way to look at the plain text content inside the https traffic
> - that would defeat the whole purpose of https.

4 words: Man in the middle.

It's perfectly possable to intercept the inital exchange, and present the
apperence of HTTPS, while evesdropping on the plain text.

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