Re: SSL Proxying

At 11:15 AM 6/21/99 -0600, Nate Jensen wrote:
>I am trying to figure out if Squid can do SSL proxying rather than SSL
>tunneling. I've searched the Web and checked out the Squid FAQs, but
>couldn't find anything that described how to do what I need. Here is
>what I'm looking at doing:

mmm, SSL is encrypted end to end so you should not be able to do SSL proxying.
You could ofcouse cheat and redirect SSL in squid to a SSL proxy (I believe
there is still a setting for this) and make a ssl-server/ssl-client
combination. What you are doing than is decrypting and encrypting. This is a
man in the middle attack. The only issue you have to solve is that the
certificates of the client and the server have to be forged.

In short: SSL proxying is not an option ever. A proxy can only tunnel SSL due
to end-to-end encryption and verification (using certificates).

>
>[Web Browser]<---SSL/HTTP-->[Squid Proxy]<--HTTP-->[Web Server]
>
>The reason for this approach is because the Web server must not do SSL.
>(I know its weird, but this is what the system specifications state.)
>
>If anyone has insight to documentation somewhere on the Web that
>describes how to do this, I would be appreciative of that. Thank you.
>
>Nate Jensen
>njensen@datanomix.com
>

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Received on Tue Jun 22 1999 - 01:18:46 MDT