Re: [TLS] Breaking into TLS for enterprise "visibility" (don't do it)

[Hubert Kario <[e-mail]>]

On Wednesday, 4 April 2018 16:46:36 CEST Roland Zink wrote:
> Am 04.04.2018 um 14:43 schrieb Hubert Kario:
> > On Friday, 30 March 2018 11:42:23 CEST Vakul Garg wrote:
> >> Hi Martin
> >> 
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: TLS [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Martin Rex
> >>> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2018 4:47 AM
> >>> To: Steve Fenter <[e-mail]>
> >>> Cc: [e-mail]
> >>> Subject: Re: [TLS] Breaking into TLS for enterprise "visibility" (don't
> >>> do
> >>> it)>
> >>> 
> >>> Steve Fenter <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >>>> To clarify for anyone who has confusion on the enterprise TLS
> >>>> visibility use case, I think enterprises need to be able to do
> >>>> out-of-band decryption anywhere in the network that they own.
> >>> 
> >>> This is argument is so lame.
> >>> 
> >>> In Germany, monitoring communications between individuals or between
> >>> individuals and legal entities, including communications over corporate
> >>> networks, was made a serious crime in 2004 (TKG 2004) with a penalty of
> >>> up
> >>> to 5 years in prison for listening into such communication.
> >>> 
> >>> The world didn't end.  Really, consider it proven that there is no need.
> >> 
> >> Could monitoring could be legally done if user provided his consent at
> >> the
> >> time of login into enterprise managed terminal?
> >> I guess that's the case in enterprise managed networks.
> > 
> > No, even then the employer needs to establish a concrete case for
> > inspection of the communications of an employee.
> > Employer also must not continue inspection of an email as soon as it has
> > noticed that it is part of a private message.
> > 
> > https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=f946064a-05d0-4603-ace9-384
> > 6b1c7536d
> > 
> > and this is true, to a large degree, for the whole of EU:
> > https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/sep/05/romanian-chat-messages-read-by
> > -employer-had-privacy-breached-court-rules> 
> >  From the ECHR ruling:
> > "An employer[...] cannot reduce private social life in the workplace to
> > zero. Respect for private life and for the privacy of correspondence
> > continues to exist, even if these may be restricted in so far as
> > necessary."
> 
> This is true, but at the same time the employer is required in many
> countries including Germany to archive many emails and other relevant
> messages. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_archiving
> or https://www.intradyn.com/email-retention-laws/. This is often in
> conflict with the above mentioned laws, for an example see
> https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/08/volkswagen-withhold-emissio
> ns-documents-investigations.
> 
> 
> I don't think breaking TLS is the way to fulfill such requirements but I
> also think TLS connection to a company shouldn't end up at a third party
> providing hosting or CDN services.

it's not in conflict, just because you control of have the data doesn't mean 
you are allowed to access it - think phone companies listening on customer 
conversations

What it does mean, is that realtime access to TLS connections is definitely 
not necessary to retain messages for criminal investigations, that can and 
should be done at the endpoint in control of the company, not in transit at 
network boundary.

-- 
Regards,
Hubert Kario
Senior Quality Engineer, QE BaseOS Security team
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