Re:Supporting Let’s Encrypt, the nonprofit making HTTPS free...
by tialaramex on Monday June 14, 2021 @08:38PM
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If you've decided that you trust the "firewall or other device", perhaps because you purchased it, or because doing so is a condition of employment, then you get to keep both halves.
If the "firewall or other device" tries to interpose when you don't trust it, that won't work, for the same reason it doesn't work for bad guys. We do not distinguish the apparent reason for attempts to destroy the confidentiality, integrity or authenticity promises in TLS, whatever the apparent motive your HTTP transaction will either work, delivering those promises or you get an error and no progress is made.
If the "firewall or other device" tries to interpose when you don't trust it, that won't work, for the same reason it doesn't work for bad guys. We do not distinguish the apparent reason for attempts to destroy the confidentiality, integrity or authenticity promises in TLS, whatever the apparent motive your HTTP transaction will either work, delivering those promises or you get an error and no progress is made.