Re: Help! SSL certificate errors for fedora related sites from university network

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On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 10:16:38 -0500, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 at 07:56, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> What you are seeing is someone intercepting the traffic between you and the
> real servers. This could be anything from an ASN BGP attack to a security tool
> which is to look for phishing, botnets, or other traffic. [Depending on the
> place, traffic at universities can be 20-65% botnet traffic because they
> usually have a large pipe and rules to not stop research.] I am going to lean
> towards this being that the university has put in a f5 proxy tool to try to
> stop that traffic by redirecting any certs it finds troublesome as bad. [And I
> am going to guess that Let's Encrypt is being treated as troublesome.]

Thank you for your reply, Stephen. I've updated the ticket at the
university with more information based on it. I do hope they can fix
whatever it is they're up to. Otherwise, I will be unable to do any
Fedora related work from university (or when connected to their VPN).
:(

-- 
Thanks,
Regards,

Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha

Time zone: Europe/London

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