Man-in-the-middling SSL / TLS on Windows
"Is there a lock in the URL bar?" Funny how the proliferation of commercial CA's led to this question to become the hallmark of Internet security circa 2001. I'll keep that rant for another day. Thumbs up to EFF and Mozilla for finally doing something about it . When debugging issues with network connections or reverse engineering products, you might find the need to take the gloves off and find out exactly what an application is doing on the wire. You'll need a man in the middle. ( instantcsi ) Providing the application you're targeting uses a web protocol, you'll be in with some luck- there are heaps of web debugging proxies and tools you can use on any platforms. If you have physical access to the network (i.e. a non-corporate environment), or you have a Linux machine on the network that IT security approve of- the conversation effectively ends here: Use MITMproxy . Unfortunately I don't have either physical access or a Linux machine o