Transport attacks & defences

P53.tls-handshake.02 · Audience: guest, it-ml, language-pro · Prerequisites: The TLS 1.3 handshake, Certificates & chains of trust

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A handshake can be attacked while it happens: an attacker can downgrade the negotiation to a weak version, or sit in the middle with its own certificate (MITM). This module reads annotated handshake transcripts and names the attack — detection first, then the defences that stop each one.

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Rung 1 — read a transcript, name the attack

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Interview rung — transport attacks & their defences (free-form)

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