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> pretty standard fare for a corporate firewall/proxy It is? So corporations install something that infects your laptop and updates the root certificate every
by m-j-fox 9y ago
> pretty standard fare for a corporate firewall/proxy
It is? So corporations install something that infects your laptop and updates the root certificate every time Chrome or Firefox updates? Sounds extreme to me. Something the NSA might be able to do, but hopefully not my company.
- dboreham 9y agoIt is and they do. You'll find many historical threads here discussing cases where interested parties were actively campaigning to thwart anti-MITM measures being added to TLS, because they broke their MITM attacks that their businesses depend on.
- mjcl 9y agoIf you're running Windows, it's built into the OS using Group Policy. Very helpful when a company is running it's own internal CA/PKI.
- m-j-fox 9y agoWow Windows. You've outdone yourself. Can I assume Linux and Mac are safe?
- mi100hael 9y agoNope, you can install additional certificate authorities in the system keychain on Mac, which Safari and Chrome both use. Commonly done on managed installs. https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/discussions/11830/deploying-certificates https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/discussions/11830/deploying... Other applications on mac/linux that use their own keystore like OpenSSL or Java will throw cert errors if you don't also install the CA in their keystores, but that could be scripted as well if it causes too much friction for users. If you're in such an environment, the options are either install the CA or don't use anything that requires HTTPS ¯\_(ツ)_/¯