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How to fuzz proprietary protocol over SSL?

I'm doing vulnerability research on a client/server architecture that uses a custom proprietary protocol sent over SSL (port 443). I need to be able to intercept the traffic, and be able to view it in ...
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how to make socat ignore client certificate?

I'm trying to set up a listener to check if an application checks the server's certificate (I'm strongly assuming it is not). So I've created a self-signed certificate fake.pem for a listener and am ...
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MITM and replay attacks prevention

I have a client (a mobile app) and a server, the app connects to the server via SSL. The server uses a self-signed certificate, and the client has a file (I'm not entirely sure what, something to do ...
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How to MiTM insert an iframe using burp or another tool?

So, I am trying to obtain a cookie without the secure flag enabled over HTTPS. After reading about it, I came across an answer: You visit https://secure.example.com/ which drops a cookie on your ...
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TLS MITM attack at Handshake [duplicate]

I have informed myself about TLS connection and Man in the Middle attacks. It is easy to hijack anything if the victim is using HTTP. But I'm even concerned about HTTPS / TLS connection. Applications ...
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Can attackers steal SSL certificate from server and use it for MITM attacks?

I'm writing an iOS app for private use to acts as a client for a PHP server. To secure the connection I'm using a self-signed SSL certificate. Since the server is self-hosted, on the first connection ...
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How is the TLS protected against length field of the header being modified?

I know this question looks very silly, but, it has been bothering me for a while and I am unable to come up with an answer by myself. So, here it goes.. Packets in the TLS protocol consist of a 5 ...
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Is it possible to “protect” against MITM attacks over HTTP?

In a conversation on twitter I warned a site about a security vulnerability. Specifically, the possibility of a MITM (Man in the Middle) attack used to compromise their registration form. The ...
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SSL: How to send generated client certificate from server to avoid MITM?

The question I have is simply how do I prevent a MiTM attack on a certificate once the server side creates a new one and tries to send it to a client? Does the certificate get encrypted by rsa and ...
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Man-in-the-middle scenario for TLS

Consider the following scenario: You want to securely communicate with a.com and you only trust the VeriSign root certificate. a.com presents a certificate signed by VeriSign with CN=a.com, so you ...
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What's an easy way to perform a man-in-the-middle attack on SSL?

I'd like to perform a man-in-the-middle attack on SSL connections between clients and a server. Assuming the following: I've got a certificate that the client will accept, via poor cert validation ...
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ECDHE_RSA and gmail

I'm using Chrome on Ubuntu Linux to connect to Gmail. The connection info says that ECDHE_RSA is used for the https symmetric key exchange. Based on my understanding of TLS and Gmail, my client ...
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SMTP and SSL/TLS

If I understand correctly, communication between SMTP servers may be encrypted but is not required. Because it is optional, does it really have benefits? When server A connects to server B, both of ...
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How practical/important is the Lucky Thirteen TLS attack?

I was reading this article which talks about a new attack against TLS being called Lucky Thirteen. It claims to allow repeatable MitM attacks against HTTPS connections. It's described as being fairly ...
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Can SSL requests be proxied by issuing a second certificate?

Alice wants to login to her account at https://www.bobsbank.com/. However she clicks on a malicious link in an email and instead gets sent to the malicious site https://www.charliesbank.com/. The ...
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Should the Keygen element be used to create a certificate for mutual auth TLS? What alternatives are there?

I'm interested in using mutual auth TLS to improve the security of my javascript based webservices . I've looked at the Keygen element and given all its issues, not sure if this can even be used for ...
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How can Nokia decrypt HTTPS data? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Can real end-to-end SSL encryption be made? Regarding this piece of news, I wonder how can Nokia so easily decrypt HTTPS data? As I understand the data is encrypted by ...
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How do a VPNs route SSL traffic and do they compromise security?

If my understanding of how VPNs operate is correct, all traffic between me and the Internet at-large is routed through the VPN's servers. So an attacker would only be able to see encrypted traffic ...
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Is Nokia's “institutional MITM” of SSL traffic vulnerable to CRIME attack?

It's recently been in the news that some Nokia phones proxy all traffic, including SSL connections, through a Nokia proxy. This is effectively an "institutional MITM" attack on users those phones. ...
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Do client certificates provide protection against MITM?

I'm looking for a way to protect clients from a MITM attack without using a VPN, and ToR. My thought is that client certificates might do the job, but I'm not entirely sure since not too much server ...
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Reg HTTPS man in the middle [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How is it possible that people observing an HTTPS connection being established wouldn’t know how to decrypt it? A browser sends a request to gmail.com, gmail sends the ...
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How can a web application protect IE users when this browser doesn't support HSTS?

HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) is a very useful feature at preventing OWASP a9 violations and attacks like SSLStrip which try and prevent the client from making a secure connection. My ...
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Without SSL, what vantage point does one need to MITM non-SSL'd HTTP?

OK, so there are two things here: being able to read the content of the requests and responses, and then being able to modify them. The former may depend on the latter, I'm not sure. But basically, ...
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SSL Based Denial of Services due to Message Digest

On a very high level, its known that SSL/TLS uses message digests to verify the integrity of the messages sent. However, the question I have in mind is : How does SSL ensure a DoS does not happen ...
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How does a Web Security Gateway analyse SSL Encrypted Traffic?

Since HTTPS traffic is encrypted in transit how does a web security gateway analyse it?
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MITM Attacks over SSL [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How might the U.K. Government's proposed internet surveillance equipment “bypass” encryption? If I have a server (call it server 1) set up to receive ...
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MITM session injection/invalidation

When sending a cookie back to the server, the browser does not send back the "secure" flag: the server cannot check whether the sent cookie really come from the "secure" origin (https://example.com). ...
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HTTPS and cache injection

I understand the downside of this attack and what wrong can be done. But I dont understand how is it done ? Well, I need to educate myself, any pointers would be useful.
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How might the U.K. Government's proposed internet surveillance equipment “bypass” encryption?

http://www.channel4.com/news/black-boxes-to-monitor-all-internet-and-phone-data http://rt.com/news/uk-privacy-internet-freedom-186/ 'Black boxes' will be installed by internet services providers ...
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How can end-users detect malicious attempts at SSL spoofing when the network already has an authorized SSL proxy?

I'm working on one client's network where they have enabled HTTPS authority spoofing on their proxy. This allows them to effectively perform a man-in-the-middle attack to decipher all outgoing ...
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Are my credentials unsafe if I am already logged-in before connecting to a public network?

Let's say I am already logged-in to my Gmail or Yahoo account using my 3G then I switched to a public WIFI in an airport or cafe. Is my username and password still vulnerable? What others kinds of ...
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In practice, does crypto software accept a *.com or or even a *. certificate?

Assuming this will be done with your own PKI, and not a public trusted CA. Considering that *.sub.domain.com is valid, and so is *.domain.com is valid, is it technically possible to issue *.com and ...
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How do I check that I have a direct SSL connection to a website?

I always thought that if I had an SSL connection there would be no MITM attacks. Now it appears that isn't true (see comments in this question Is it okay from a security perspective to read foreign ...
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Monitoring and filtering of arbitrary outgoing data

I would like to be able to not just centrally monitor but also filter any organizational data moving out our edge routers, regardless of the sender application and regardless of the protocol/port used ...
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Best tool for testing an SSL connection in my application

I have developed an application that send binary data between a .NET client and Java server via TCP. I have recently implemented SSL for this connection and would like a way to demonstrate that it is ...
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Does TOR Hidden Service Protocol provide more threat protection than a standard HTTPS session?

DuckDuckGo is a search engine that has a TOR Exit Enclave. This site is focused on the safe, secure searching of its users. Since DNS is not used in TOR, it appears that HTTPS is less secure due to ...
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Firefox detected an invalid SSL certificate

February 14, 2012 UTC: Yesterday, I connected to a website of a VPN provider for which Firefox 8.0.1 on Windows 7 Ultimate x86-64 stated that its' SSL certificate is invalid. I saved the received ...
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How to thwart sslstrip attack?

I need help understanding the dynamics of an sslstrip attack. I'm using it to test the security of a site that I own. I can successfully sniff the victim (in this case, myself) credentials over the ...
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Does HTTPS Everywhere defend me against sslsniff-like attacks?

http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslsniff/ If I have a domain on my HTTPS Everywhere list, so that theoretically it could be only visited via an HTTPS connection in my Firefox, then could an ...
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MiTM - Non-HTTP TLS

I'm doing some research into the privacy of various iOS applications. My main source of data is via wireshark or Burp (HTTP/S proxy). This has been rather sucessfull for MiTM for decrypting HTTPS ...
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Options when defending against SSLstrip?

I'm wondering, does anyone have any suggestions to defend against SSLstrip particularly?