How to decrypt https?

Question

Computer networks

Is it possible to perform a "man in the middle" attack in the https protocol? If possible, then what? Or how else can you decrypt https traffic?

Answer 1

You can either get access to the infrastructure of the service and pick traffic before sending it to the client, or put a fake root certificate on the client, and you can let traffic through yourself. See how Fiddler does it on your local machine to intercept HTTPS traffic. If you can install a fake certificate, you can also re-encrypt traffic on the middle-side, creating the illusion of a normal HTTPS connection.

Answer 2

The protocol is focused on that, that MiTM is practically difficult to implement in it, without access to one of the sides of the connection.

Answer 3

Kali Linux has an assembly of software for decrypting ssl traffic.