MITM Proxies

Hi there, excuse my ignorance, but I am curious to know how MITM applications bypass SSL encryption? Do you need to buy a CA signed cert for the MITM machine? How does the spoofing process actually work?

Thanks

Kevin Willock
 IGSN Security
 415.462.1782
 403.870.1655


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