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Would it be possible to run a http to https gateway using squid?

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I was wondering to myself, If I can generate certificates and bump the connection, I can use a 302\308 to redirect all traffic from https to a http(intercepatble) connection.

Then on the http interceptor rewrite the request into https.

I have a working setup which uses a redirection "attack" to authenticate users over http+https.

Now the issue is that if all browsers will deny a redirection from https to http(a downgrading attack) then the http world would look a bit weird.


I was thinking about such a downgrade attack on couple sites but I am unsure how good it will be.

I have seen couple years ago that some ISPs used a redirection attack when youtube used plain http, this was in order to allow a "pre-fetch" of a tiny GET request.

Now since many others up-graded their security it’s another story.

 

And as an addition I have seen that Microsoft use and "FTP" like transfer protocol in their software.

They have a "secured" control channel which has certificates pinning or something else as a safe guard,
and in more then one case they use another channel to fetch the request over plain HTTP( when a proxy is defined).

 

Would it be reasonable to write and publish such a tool? Or is it a security risk to publish such a tool to the public?

 

Eliezer

 

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Eliezer Croitoru
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Email: eliezer@xxxxxxxxxxxx

 

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