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Re: NeverSSL

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So is there a matching method to neatly introduce MITM in the connection? Our portal would let you log on but you'll still fail to connect to anything as we have to inspect it.

> So is there a matching method to neatly introduce MITM in the connection? No, for fairly obvious reasons. If you MITM traffic, clients will correctly flag security errors. No method exists or ever should exist for a network to cause clients to not flag such security errors. Any such method would defeat one of the primary purposes of TLS: to protect against hostile networks. > Our portal would let you log on but you…

For what purpose? > Schools and BYOD.

I know MITM should never be silent of course but some kind of interaction flow would be good. When you try to add a school account to your android it won't let you if you don't install the MDM client. A similar thing for the network would be great (of course, the MDM will install the cert).

I'd love if I could also pin our MITM cert to only be valid when the client is on our IP address' which if using ipv6 could work very nicely.

Re: NeverSSL

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post #154

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But what is the purpose of this page?

The scenario is: You want to connect to a public wifi hotspot and use their internet connection. In order to do so you need to trigger the login page in your browser after you connect to the hotspot. However if you open common urls like google.com or facebook.com you'll automatically get redirected to secure connections (https) and they can't intercept this to present the login page. This is because TLS (the protocol…

> Don't use public wifi unless you really need to!

Well if you always turn on VPN I don't think it would be such a huge issue would it

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