On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Rose, Greg <g...@qualcomm.com> wrote:
>
> On 2011 Nov 30, at 17:18 , Lee wrote:
>
>> On 11/30/11, Rose, Greg <g...@qualcomm.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2011 Nov 30, at 16:44 , Adam Back wrote:
>>>
>>>> Are there really any CAs which issue sub-CA for "deep packet inspection"
>>>> aka
>>>> doing MitM and issue certs on the fly for everything going through them:
>>>> gmail, hotmail, online banking etc.
>>>
>>> Yes, there are. I encountered one in a hotel at Charles de Gaulle airport a
>>> few weeks ago.
>>
>> How did you know there was a MITM if it gave out a valid cert?
>
> I run a wonderful Firefox extension called Certificate Patrol. It keeps a 
> local cache of certificates, and warns you if a certificate, CA, or public 
> key changes unexpectedly. Sort of like SSH meets TLS. As soon as I went to my 
> stockbroker's web site, the warnings started to appear. Then it was just 
> checking IP addresses and stuff.

So ... let's see the cert(s), then!
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