Wasc

Excellent paper from MSFT Research on inline proxies vs. SSL

07 June 2009 ~2 min By Haroon Meer
Conferences Wasc
Ron Auger sent an email to the [WASC Mail list] on some fine work presented recently by Microsoft Research. The paper (and accompanying PPT), titled [Pretty-Bad-Proxy: An Overlooked Adversary in Browsers’ HTTPS Deployments] is pretty cool and shows several techniques for a malicious inline proxy to sniff SSL sessions passing through the proxy. Its genuinely a bunch of cool findings and has been handled neatly (with the exception of some shocking clipart!).