What the wireshark captures are showing is the OVI app talking to
their cloud (I would speculate the app is just updating its catalog or
something of that sort).

I did not see even a mention of the word fingerprint. Let alone
comparing the "fake" with the "real".  Do I need to continue :)

Krassi


On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Jeffrey Altman
<[email protected]> wrote:
> When you look at what the Nokia Browser does in the non-TLS case you see
> that the Nokia Browser like the Kindle Browser and Opera Mobile use a
> dedicated proxy server to avoid DNS latency and permit
> cached/compressed/reformatted web pages to be transmitted to the mobile
> device.  This is
> performed by the Nokia Browser including the desired target URL as a
> private http header.
>
> What I believe is occurring for https connections is that Nokia Browser
> is establishing a TLS connection to the Nokia Proxy and continuing to
> send the target URL as a private http header.   What is unclear is how
> the Nokia Browser interacts with the proxy under this situation.  Is the
> Proxy providing a tunnel for the client or is it acting as a MITM?
>
> This does not appear to me to be a certificate being misused.
>
> Jeffrey Altman
>
>
> On 1/10/2013 4:53 PM, ianG wrote:
>
>> Just on that theme of multiple attacks from different vectors leading to
>> questions at the systemic level, another certificate failure just got
>> posted on slashdot:
>>
>> http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/13/01/09/1910210/nokia-redirecting-traffic-on-some-of-its-phones-including
>>
>>
>> "On Wednesday, security professional Gaurang Pandya outlined how Nokia
>> is hijacking Internet browsing traffic on some of its phones. As a
>> result, the company technically has access to all your Internet content,
>> including sensitive data that is sent over secure connections (HTTPS),
>> such as banking credentials and pretty much any other usernames and
>> passwords you use to login to services on the Internet. Last month,
>> Pandya noted his Nokia phone (an Asha 302) was forcing traffic through a
>> proxy, instead of directly hitting the requested server. The connections
>> are either redirected to Nokia/Ovi proxy servers if the Nokia browser is
>> used, and to Opera proxy servers if the Opera Mini browser is used (both
>> apps use the same User-Agent)."
>>
>> Which Nokia apparently admits:
>>
>> "When temporary decryption of HTTPS connections is required on our proxy
>> servers, to transform and deliver users’ content, it is done in a secure
>> manner."
>>
>> http://gaurangkp.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/nokia-https-mitm/
>>
>> Pictures above seem to indicate VeriSign as the CA, but whether that
>> means they know about the MITMing is not clear.
>>
>> iang
>>
>
>
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