IDS: IDS, IPS and encrypted traffic

[Daniel Hamburg <daniel.hamburg () iis rub de>]

Hello everybody,

I’ve been looking around the net for a while, trying to find some theoretical and practical approaches to solve the 
problem of analyzing encrypted traffic.
I know, that there is a need to decrypt the traffic before analyzing it, but I haven’t found any concrete solutions 
neither for NIDS nor for HIDS yet. Some HIDS vendors announced that their products are capable of analyzing encrypted 
traffic, but I didn’t succeed to find any details about that.
Does anybody know some products or papers which deal with the problem of analyzing encrypted traffic?

Thanks in advance,
 Daniel Hamburg


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