[SSL Observatory] China MITM of github.com?

Ralph Holz holz at net.in.tum.de
Wed Jan 30 12:08:12 PST 2013


Hi,

There is also a longer report on their homepage:

https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/jan/china-github-and-man-middle

Ralph

On 01/30/2013 08:47 PM, Tom Ritter wrote:
> Well according to GreatFire.org it only lasted for an hour, on Jan 26.
>  If you head to twitter, search, and look at that time
> ( https://twitter.com/search?q=github%20ssl ) you'll see a fair amount
> of activity.
> 
> -tom
> 
> On 30 January 2013 14:42, Erik Hjelmvik <erik.hjelmvik at gmail.com
> <mailto:erik.hjelmvik at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi all,
> 
>     You've probably seen the news about Chinese MITM on SSL traffic to
>     GitHub:
>     https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/jan/china-github-and-man-middle
> 
>     However, the only sources I've seen mentioning this MITM attack is
>     GreatFire.org and @teawithcarl
> 
>     Is there someone on this list who can confirm or deny whether or not
>     this MITM attack is real?
> 
>     Regards,
>     Erik
> 
>     --
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>     twitter: http://twitter.com/netresec
> 
> 


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