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Re:UC Berkeley profs lambast new “black box” network monitor... by wfunction on Sunday February 07, 2016 @06:21PM (#11055491)
Are you just making a guess or do you actually know what is happening here? Because from what I've been able to tell so far, what you say is not what is going on here. It seems to be passive monitoring. If you have evidence to the contrary please post it.
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Re:UC Berkeley profs lambast new “black box” network monitor... by hueving on Sunday February 07, 2016 @07:33PM (#11055776)
Passive monitoring is not possible even if you have the private key for the target cert if diffie hellman is used as a key exchange. Look up perfect forward secrecy for more info.
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