Re: Secure Reverse Proxy on NT

[George Capehart <capegeo () opengroup org>]

"Marcus J. Ranum" wrote:
> > (With secure reverse proxy, the proxy acts as a origin server (web
> > server) and is seen as such by the browser. A SSL  connection is
> > established between the browser and the proxy. Traffic is decrypted on
> > the proxy then another SSL connection is established between the proxy
> > and the origin server (web server)).
>
> What's so "secure" about that?
>
> mjr.

Looks like a great place from which to launch a man-in-the-middle attack
to me . . .  ;->

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