IDS: Re: IDS, IPS and encrypted traffic

[neil () slampt net]

Hey Daniel,

Have you looked at the Mcafee Intrushield product?
The latest version of the sensor software has the ability to load SSL keys and 
then decrypt/inspect the traffic in realtime.

Regards

Neil Archibald

Quoting 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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