My college is forcing me to install their SSL certificate(security.stackexchange.com) |
My college is forcing me to install their SSL certificate(security.stackexchange.com) |
These certs are used to terminate TLS connections at the network edge, then some device makes the requests out on behalf of the clients. Decrypt, inspect, pass back and forth (only if it is authorized).
This is done in the name of 'security'. The companies that sell these devices assert that is makes us all safer.
Well, that, or horribly mangles them. My employer uses Blue Coat ProxySG, and browsing Wikipedia in Chrome has been impossible for a few months. [1] Before that, it was anything which prioritized ECDHE ciphers and used Fallback SCSV, like the Mozilla Developer Network site. It's a pain in the butt.
[1]: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=511976#c...