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SSL Proxy discussion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Tue Sep 23 11:34:48 1997
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: cryptography@c2.net (Cryptography Mail list)
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 06:18:04 -0400 (EDT)
I've been having an interesting discussion about proxies and MITM
tools on Marcus Ranum's new moderated firewall wizards mailing list.
Im hoping some of the cryptographers here could join and comment on
the feasability of adding a third party (a firewall proxy) to an SSL
connection such that the proxy can read traffic, and decide to kill
the connection, but not to modify the content silently. (Yes, I'm
leaving a chance that the proxy could modify content, if it announces
itself as doing so.)
The archive is available on
http://www.nfr.net/firewall-wizards/mail-archive/1997/Sep/0005.html,
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Adam
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