Re: SSL & IDS

[Mikael Olsson <mikael.olsson () ENTERNET SE>]

Roelof Temmingh wrote:
> I am working on an article-thingy, and while writing I stumbled across
> this: IDS & SSL does not work together well...wow! (this was a joke).
> Even if you put an IDS on the same platform as the webserver it would not
> work. How should this be addressed?

You'll likely have to terminate the SSL connection on a reverse proxy
machine in front of the web server and do your IDS sniffing after that
reverse proxy.

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