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Most of these middle boxes aren't actually man-in-the-middle attacking TLS. Instead they are enforcing aspects of the protocol, as some kind of Firewall. Someti
by colmmacc 9y ago
Most of these middle boxes aren't actually man-in-the-middle attacking TLS. Instead they are enforcing aspects of the protocol, as some kind of Firewall. Sometimes this is silly fluff, preventing the bit-torrent protocol from running over port 443.
But sometimes it is useful: after HeartBleed I wrote a TLS inspecting firewall that blocks heartbeat records and I know it really helped get some customers out of a deep hole (they were unable to upgrade the impacted software itself).
Often it is something in the middle; like firewalls that look at SNI and X509 certificates to block "bad" domains associated with phishing and other abuse.