Ah, I see. I suppose I got a bit confused, and wanted to confirm how encryption would work for outbound traffic. Just to be sure: when an application wants to send encrypted data to a website/service on the Internet, it will use the respective certificate for said website. However, if one runs a transparent proxy in the middle and inserts a root certificate in the certificate store of the application, said certificate becomes valid (and the de-facto pick) for all websites, and this is what the client begins to use for everything.
Is that how it works?
canni@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Not quite. This might be a better explanation than I’m providing: chat.openai.com/…/c77fc7ed-9d68-4076-ab70-e953a38…
MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Indeed, that is what I meant to say. Thanks for the link. I’m assuming that transparent proxies have some sort of certificate store in them, since they connect as the user to different websites?