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Re: IDS, IPS and encrypted traffic

Subject: Re: IDS, IPS and encrypted traffic
Date: 06 Dec 2004 20:47:43 +0100
El jue, 02 de 12 de 2004 a las 08:15, Daniel Hamburg escribiÃ:
Hello everybody,

Iâve been looking around the net for a while, trying to find some 
theoretical and practical approaches to solve the 
problem of analyzing encrypted traffic.

I know, that there is a need to decrypt the traffic before analyzing it, but 
I havenât found any concrete solutions 
neither for NIDS nor for HIDS yet. Some HIDS vendors announced that their 
products are capable of analyzing encrypted 
traffic, but I didnât succeed to find any details about that.

Does anybody know some products or papers which deal with the problem of 
analyzing encrypted traffic?

Thanks in advance,
  Daniel Hamburg


Some people have had success using an squid proxy with the certificates
to decrypt the SSL traffic before sending it to the real web servers
and use a snort box after the squid proxy to see the unencrypted
traffic.

You can also try ssltunnel to handle other protocols but it's more
complicated.


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