Trying to investigate private APIs on apps installed on my Android, I've noticed most modern apps use custom client certificate meaning with the trusted root certificate installed on the Android, Charles still cannot monitor the traffic because the server would reject the handshake from Charles. I imagine either I will need a different tool for the traffic monitoring or I will need to direct Charles to use some custom certificate file embedded in the app itself.
You need that certificate file at hand (I don't know if and how you can extract it from application).
You also need to know the passphrase (password) for that certificate. Charles will ask it when you connect to selected host for 1st time.
Then just use latest Charles (tested on version 4.2.1) menu Proxy -> SSL Proxying Settings, tab Client Certificates and add certificate (PKCS#12 key file) for selected host and port.
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I have changed to manual proxy, 127.0.0.1 on port 8080. That got me through to the certificates at http://mitm.it/ which I have downloaded and installed. But now firefox (latest version 89.0) is rejecting every web page because of mitmproxy. Under the advanced tab of the error page is this explanation:
Firefox uses the Mozilla CA store to verify that a connection is secure, rather than certificates supplied by the user’s operating system. So, if an antivirus program or a network is intercepting a connection with a security certificate issued by a CA that is not in the Mozilla CA store, the connection is considered unsafe.
Is there a workaround for this?
I have a windows desktop application which need to be communicated with our web page.So I've created a local server which runs on a port.I'm creating a socket from my webpage to the desktop application and the communication happens though that socket.
As my webpage runs on HTTPS, I need to create a secure socket ('wss'). SO I generated a self signed certificate for Ip 127.0.0.1 using openssl and I imported the certificate to windows trusted cerificate store.Now google chrome accepts it as a trusted certificate but the firefox rejects that certificate with the error Error code: SEC_ERROR_UNKNOWN_ISSUER .
We cant buy a SSL certificate for localhost domain from a CA. Is there any solution to overcome this problem? Is there any way to skip SSL check for socket creation?
How can I create a certificate which will be accepted by all the browsers as a trusted certificate?
Firefox can use the desktop store by setting this key to TRUE : security.enterprise_roots.enabled
To change this, open about:config with your Firefox and look for this key.
If you want to change this automatically for several desktops, have a look at this tutorial which is well done.
The other answer from Eugène Adell is good, but if you are on Linux, a policy file is required to trust the OS certificate authority.
Create a file "policies.json" in the "distribution" directory of the Firefox install location, and point it to the certificate file:
{
"policies": {
"Certificates": {
"ImportEnterpriseRoots": true,
"Install": ["localhost.crt","/path/to/cert/file"]
}
}
}
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/setting-certificate-authorities-firefox
https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates/blob/master/README.md#certificates--install
This Q&A on a similar question may have some more information:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/74802552/2657515
I am trying to sniff traffic from some of my apps on the iphone.
I have charles installed. and i have installed the certificate on the iphone as instructed in charles (and i enabled the certificate on the iphone) + changes proxy to direct trafik from iphone to my computer through charles.
Everything works, i am getting trafik from the phone inside charles.
My problem is, all https called are failing for me. if i enable SSL proxy on a certain domain (let's take *.facebook.com for example) all requests give me a Failure SSL: Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connection?.
It does not matter which app or which connection i try, i get the same error..
can anyone help me
Starting from iOS 10.3 SSL trust for the certificate has to be turned on manually for the manually installed certificate profiles in iOS so go to Settings > General > About > Certificate Trust Settings. Under Enable full trust for root certificates turn on trust for the certificate.]]
Here is the link to apple documentation
The quiz can't be viewed by any other users, unless the "Secure URL" is updated. But I can't figure out how to do that.
This simply means you must have an SSL certificate on the domain that hosts your canvas page. I would recommend rapidSSL.
Here is a general overview of what this entails: http://webnet77.com/SSL-certificates.html
Here is what we do:
get yourself host account with dedicated IP or better linux dedicated server
ask your host to generate Certificate Signing Request or do it yourself use openssl (don't know how to do it on windows)
get cheap ssl certificate (like rapidSSL) 9.90 per year or something just domain verification, google it.
send them your CSR
wait like 10 minutes
find your cert in your inbox attached
install it according to your server (Apache uses mod_ssl)
test it
I'm trying to see how a certain application is talking to a server in SSL. Basically, the process just hangs when it claims to have done some SSL communication. I want to debug the problem by catching the traffic, but I can't really use a sniffer since SSL will probably look like a hexdump.
Is there a good man-in-the-middle tool that I could use as instrumentation? I just need something that will show me the decrypted communication. Hopefully very easy to setup. I could even point the application to any IP address/port available to my machine (eg localhost:8888), so proxies would be fine. Also, I can probably configure the application to accept any certificate.
What do you use to simulate a man-in-the-middle (mitm) SSL attack?
UPDATE: I tried fiddler and can't get it to work. I installed openssl and typed the following command:
openssl s_client -connect smtp.gmail.com:465
Gmail responds with their certificate and a 220 mx.google.com ESMTP .... However, Fiddler does not capture the traffic. I set the WinINET options in fiddler to "Use the same proxy server for all protocols". Can anyone else get this to work (or not work)? I think I need to find a way to have openssl use a proxy.
Fiddler allows you to implement a man in the middle attack against yourself to see what is inside the SSL tunnel.
Fiddler generates a unique root SSL certificate for your computer, and then creates a session certificate signed by the root. When you configure Fiddler to decrypt SSL for you it acts as a proxy between you and the destination, decrypting the traffic using the site's SSL certificate and then re-encrypting it using its own certificate.
Your browser/application will see an untrusted certificate error. You can get around this error by choosing to trust Fiddler's root certificate.
The folks over at .Net Rocks did a great podcast episode on using Fiddler to sniff your traffic.
I haven't use it for this purpose but Fiddler should be able to do what you want.
Fiddler is a Web Debugging Proxy which
logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your
computer and the Internet. Fiddler
allows you to inspect all HTTP(S)
traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle"
with incoming or outgoing data.
Fiddler includes a powerful
event-based scripting subsystem, and
can be extended using any .NET
language.
Fiddler is freeware and can debug
traffic from virtually any
application, including Internet
Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and
thousands more.
If you are using the amazingly useful Wireshark sniffer, then you can have it decrypt SSL if you are able to provide it the appropriate key files.