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A port of Mbed-TLS for the Classic Macintosh OS 7/8/9

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86 points DanAtC | 1 comments | 11 Apr 25 02:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.251s | source
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system7rocks ◴[11 Apr 25 04:49 UTC] No.43650590[source]▶
This is sick. I know Classilla, our last somewhat modern web browser, was having issues with SSL/TSL stuff at the end. Maybe this opens the door for some smart hero to revive it a bit.
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userbinator ◴[11 Apr 25 05:21 UTC] No.43650735[source]▶
A catch-all solution, that I've been using for many years, is to have a MITM proxy on the network do transparent TLS upgrading for everything that passes through it.

Then you'll inevitably run into other more nefarious forms of user-agent-discrimination via TLS fingerprinting[1], in which case https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43571099 will also be useful.

[1] Seeing a TLS 1.3 connection from a system identifying itself as Mac OS 7 will definitely trip a lot of "bot detection" software.

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1. Tommy430 ◴[11 Apr 25 10:37 UTC] No.43652399[source]▶
Speaking of MITM proxy, which one do you use?

Currently doing some interesting experiments on a bunch of Legacy Windows VMs. ;-)