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Merge pull request #2224 from jonathanrfisher1/patch-1 

Replace phrase "an TLS" with "a TLS"
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Thomas Kriechbaumer 2017-03-29 20:43:14 +02:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ client connects to the proxy and makes a request that looks like this:
CONNECT example.com:443 HTTP/1.1
A conventional proxy can neither view nor manipulate an TLS-encrypted data
A conventional proxy can neither view nor manipulate a TLS-encrypted data
stream, so a CONNECT request simply asks the proxy to open a pipe between the
client and server. The proxy here is just a facilitator - it blindly forwards
data in both directions without knowing anything about the contents. The
@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ exactly this attack, by allowing a trusted third-party to cryptographically sign
a server's certificates to verify that they are legit. If this signature doesn't
match or is from a non-trusted party, a secure client will simply drop the
connection and refuse to proceed. Despite the many shortcomings of the CA system
as it exists today, this is usually fatal to attempts to MITM an TLS connection
as it exists today, this is usually fatal to attempts to MITM a TLS connection
for analysis. Our answer to this conundrum is to become a trusted Certificate
Authority ourselves. Mitmproxy includes a full CA implementation that generates
interception certificates on the fly. To get the client to trust these
@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ Lets put all of this together into the complete explicitly proxied HTTPS flow.
2. Mitmproxy responds with a ``200 Connection Established``, as if it has set up the CONNECT pipe.
3. The client believes it's talking to the remote server, and initiates the TLS connection.
It uses SNI to indicate the hostname it is connecting to.
4. Mitmproxy connects to the server, and establishes an TLS connection using the SNI hostname
4. Mitmproxy connects to the server, and establishes a TLS connection using the SNI hostname
indicated by the client.
5. The server responds with the matching certificate, which contains the CN and SAN values
needed to generate the interception certificate.
@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ explicit HTTPS connections to establish the CN and SANs, and cope with SNI.
destination was.
3. The client believes it's talking to the remote server, and initiates the TLS connection.
It uses SNI to indicate the hostname it is connecting to.
4. Mitmproxy connects to the server, and establishes an TLS connection using the SNI hostname
4. Mitmproxy connects to the server, and establishes a TLS connection using the SNI hostname
indicated by the client.
5. The server responds with the matching certificate, which contains the CN and SAN values
needed to generate the interception certificate.