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Re: [pkix] How do we differentiate authentic servers from proxies performing TLS interception?

mrex@sap.com (Martin Rex) Thu, 12 November 2015 16:38 UTC

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Subject: Re: [pkix] How do we differentiate authentic servers from proxies performing TLS interception?
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Miller, Timothy J. wrote:
>> How do we differentiate authentic servers from proxies performing TLS
>> interception?
> 
> What would be the point?  You're going to accept a legitimate MitM
> (e.g., corporate security) and a malicious MitM won't use the extension.

Just for the record, corporate security performing MitM on TLS connections
of human user's browsers is *NOT* legitimate in Europe, it is clearly
*OUTSIDE* of the legal wiggle room of 2002/58/EC for EU member states,
and it has been a criminal offense (up to 5 years in prison)
in Germany since 2004.


-Martin

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