MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan

Re:MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan by cpach on Friday July 19, 2019 @04:44AM (#20477092)

Allright. But they didn’t do it for all ~300M citizens though, did they?

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Re:MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan by williamscales on Friday July 19, 2019 @12:54PM (#20480343)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

They did it to everyone whose traffic transited ATT's backbone

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Re:MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan by cpach on Friday July 19, 2019 @01:33PM (#20480732)

I haven’t immersed myself into the details of the Room 641A scandal, but it does indeed sound awful. I do not approve of the operations of NSA/Five Eyes.

But let my re-phrase my question like this: Do we have any evidence that NSA can perform MITM on TLS 1.3? Using a federal US CA would be one way, tricking a CA to issue fraudulent leaf certificates would be another, but as established elsewhere in this thread, both those ways are quite noisy. Attacking the endpoint is another way, but once Mallory does that, all bets are off.

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