add note about key escrow

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Fabian Franz 6 years ago
parent 6c0593360d
commit 1982f72d84

@ -16,9 +16,14 @@ as well as other checks to protect the application behind. Such checks are malwa
spam, web attack detection and so on.
.. Warning::
This tools support you to prevent some bad things from happening but will never
provide a 100% success rate. Do not use them as a replacement / excuse for (not)
fixing the upstream.
Reverse proxies support you to prevent common attacks to your
web application by bots but will never provide a 100% success rate.
Especially a targeted attack will very likely be not detected because a lot of
effort has been taken to prevent detection.
Do not use a reverse proxy as a replacement / excuse for (not) fixing the main
problems like known vulnerabilities in libraries, outdated software, or
vulnerabilities in your own code.
Supported Reverse Proxies in OPNsense
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@ -183,6 +188,15 @@ You may use some extension headers like SNI to decide, which upstream is used.
This setup is recommended if you only want some improved routing decisions
better than plain NAT.
.. Note::
A reverse proxy can still get access to the encrypted content if it has the
private Key of the server and a cipher without PFS_ is used. In other cases
the connection can only be decrypted if one of the peers escrows the key.
Firefox supports this via the environment SSLKEYLOGFILE_.
This is not supported by OPNsense plugins.
.. _SSLKEYLOGFILE: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/Key_Log_Format
.. _PFS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_secrecy
Tutorials
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