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Client <-> Evil Middlebox <-> Real Web Server

Client establishes a tcpcrypt session with what it thinks is Real Web Server but is actually Evil Middlebox replaying the request to the server and the response back to the client.



Oh so A and B are describing the same scenario, okay.


Yeah, I'm not sure what the parent was getting at separating them out since from the clients perspective they're the same. I guess they mean that getting a tcpcrypt connection on your server isn't a guarantee that there isn't a middlebox either.


They were alternative ways to prevent a MITM, but they both have solutions solved by existing TLS.




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