Re: Security tool for monitoring HTTPS traffic?

[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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