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Cloudflare terminates SSL at the point closest to the user, so any of the ISPs between Cloudflare's POP and the origin could MITM the traffic. Normally an untru
by r1ch 5y ago
Cloudflare terminates SSL at the point closest to the user, so any of the ISPs between Cloudflare's POP and the origin could MITM the traffic. Normally an untrusted MITM cert would throw up a TLS error, but since the Cloudflare <-> End User part is trusted, a MITM attack with anything but Full (Strict) is undetectable to an end user.
There's plenty of examples of ISPs trying this in the wild:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/kazakhstan-government-is-now-intercepting-all-https-traffic/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/kazakhstan-government-is-now-i...
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4vy3op/my_isp_is_trying_to_intercept_some_of_my_https/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/4vy3op/my_isp_is_...
https://superuser.com/questions/176651/isp-replaces-ssl-certificates-any-solution https://superuser.com/questions/176651/isp-replaces-ssl-cert...