Re: How to monitor encrypted connections...

Stefano Zanero <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.ids
Organization Secure Network S.r.l.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
> If the traffic is encrypted then it IDS will first have to decrypt
> the traffic. The IDS will have the keys to decryopt the traffic. 

Correct.

> kind of design is certainly possible in HIPS where for SSL traffic
> keys can be uploaded,

Incorrect, in HOST intrusion prevention such artifice is not needed usually.

> forward  the traffic to exploit/vulnerability specific rules. However
> it will be computationaly expensive.

This is not really the problem. The problem is: do you really want to
store all of your keys on another device.

Stefano

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