[squid-users] How to configure a "proxy home" page ?

Yuri yvoinov at gmail.com
Sun Mar 25 22:05:26 UTC 2018


And yes, HTTPS is insecure by design and all our actions does not it
less insecure :-D


26.03.2018 04:03, Yuri пишет:
>
> 26.03.2018 03:55, Amos Jeffries пишет:
>> On 26/03/18 10:16, Yuri wrote:
>>> 26.03.2018 03:02, Amos Jeffries пишет:
>>>> On 26/03/18 09:49, Yuri wrote:
>>>>> 26.03.2018 02:45, Amos Jeffries пишет:
>>>>>> On 26/03/18 04:41, Yuri wrote:
>>>>>>> 25.03.2018 20:32, Matus UHLAR - fantomas пишет:
>>>>>>>>>>> Le 25/03/2018 à 13:08, Yuri a écrit :
>>>>>>>>>>>> The problem is not install proxy CA. The problem is identify client
>>>>>>>>>>>> has no proxy CA and redirect, and do it only one time.
>>>>>>>>>> On 25.03.18 13:46, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> That is exactly the problem. And I have yet to find a solution for
>>>>>>>>>>> that.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Current method is instruct everyone - with a printed paper in the
>>>>>>>>>>> office
>>>>>>>>>>> - to connect to proxy.company-name.lan and then get further
>>>>>>>>>>> instructions
>>>>>>>>>>> from the page. This works, but an automatic splash page would be more
>>>>>>>>>>> elegant.
>>>>>>>>> 25.03.2018 18:42, Matus UHLAR - fantomas пишет:
>>>>>>>>>> impossible and unsafe. The CA must be installed before such splash
>>>>>>>>>> page shows
>>>>>>>> On 25.03.18 18:44, Yuri wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Possible. "Safe/Unsafe" should not be discussion when SSL Bump
>>>>>>>>> implemented already.
>>>>>>>> it's possible to install splash page, but not install trusted authority
>>>>>>>> certificate.  Using such authority on a proxy is the MITM attack and
>>>>>>>> whole
>>>>>>>> SSL has been designed to prevent this.
>>>>>>> Heh. If SSL designed - why SSL Bump itself possible? ;):-P
>>>>>> As all our SSL-Bump documentation should be saying:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>    when TLS is used properly SSL-Bump *does not work*.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A client checking the cert validity and producing _its own_ error page
>>>>>> about missing/unknown/untrusted CA is one of those cases. Since the
>>>>>> client is producing the "page" itself there is no possibility of Squid
>>>>>> replacing that with something else.
>>>>> Amos,
>>>>>
>>>>> squid is irrelevant here. "Used properly" and "Implemented properly",
>>>>> and, especially, "Designed properly" - which means "Secure by design",
>>>>> like SSH or The Onion Router.
>>>>>
>>>>> HTTPS is *NOT*.
>>>>>
>>>> You are missing the point. Sometimes TLS *is* implemented properly.
>>>>
>>>> Squid is very relevant here because it is the agent producing the
>>>> un-verifiable certificate. The certificate is un-verifiable exactly
>>>> because Squids own CA is being used and the client does not trust that CA.
>>> Waaaaaaaa, Amos, why you say "unverifiable"? 
>> Because that is the situation. The client software cannot silently
>> verify the certificate nor automatically install the not-trusted CA to
>> cause that *previous* verification attempt to succeed.
> Sure. User always should:
>
> a) Have root/administrative privilegies to install any CA in trusted
> store on client
> b) Device always asks users "Hey, somebody tries to install CA with
> fingerprint blah-blah-blah.... you trust them? Install? (Yes/No)"
>
> We're not talking about forced silently push proxy CA to client, right?
>>> You can show CA to users,
>> Er, you are now going in circles.
>>
>> The initial problem was that it is not possible to verify the cert
>> automatically *without* showing the user things. Requiring the user to
>> see something to get around that problem ...
> Yes. We're want just to determine - is proxy CA installed? and if not,
> redirect user to page to make desicion - install/not install. Get
> internet/remain locally ;)
> On this page we're can inform user about all require things: our CPS,
> our privacy policy, warnings, legal issues, CA fingerprint, CA issuer
> etc. ;)
>
> This seems better? All same like adult CA does :)
>
> We're all understand we're can't silently push any CA to client ;) This
> is illegal, technically impossible, insecure....... ;)
>> Amos
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