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Does ACARM inspect HTTPS traffic..?

Anonymous
2014-04-05
2014-04-05
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2014-04-05

    I'm just trying to find out an IDS that does inspect HTTPS traffic..?
    Does ACARM inspect HTTPS traffic..?

     
  • Wojciech Waga

    Wojciech Waga - 2014-04-05

    Hi. What do you mean by inspecting https traffic - you want to monitor content or just if communication has been established between given hosts?

     
  • Anonymous

    Anonymous - 2014-04-05

    Its like
    -If the HTTPS traffic malicious or not eg: generated by a malware in my system
    -Does a malicious user is warping a blocked protocol through HTTPS eg: Stunnel.

    I'm working on HTTPS traffic clasification so just want to know how acarmng looks at HTTPS traffic..

    Thanks for reply

     
  • Wojciech Waga

    Wojciech Waga - 2014-04-05

    HTTPS by definition is impossible to eavesdrop (at least for now). So there is no way of classifying HTTPS content by external sniffer/IDS. Large companies i.e. banks do this for their workers but it's more involving. You would need to perform man-in-the middle attack: trust your CA in every user's browser (you will need a physical access to every computer you want to "protect") then you will need to issue a fake certificate for every site your user visits (automatically). Then in this proxy node you will have access to unencrypted taffic that can be monitored by basically any sniffer/IDS you want.

     

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