linuxexpert-practice-labs/labs/linux-plus/3-5-2-encryption-in-transit

Linux+ 3.5.2: Encrypting data in transit

Inspecting a TLS server, the system-wide crypto policy, and seeing a clear-text protocol on the wire.

Before you start

Task 1 needs the internet. Nothing else is set up: write answers to the files in /root/lab-answers/.

Tasks

1. Connect to www.kernel.org:443 with openssl s_client and look at the certificate chain, protocol and cipher; then try again allowing only TLS 1.1, and see it fail. Write the protocol version the first connection used (as openssl shows it) to /root/lab-answers/1.
2. RHEL family: look at the system-wide crypto policy and what it allows in OpenSSL. Write the name of the current policy to /root/lab-answers/2.
3. Run a web server on 127.0.0.1:8000 and capture the traffic on the loopback interface while you send it a request with the header Authorization: Basic c2VjcmV0 with curl. Save the capture to /root/lab-answers/3.pcap and read the header back from it.

Hints

• openssl s_client -connect HOST:443 -servername HOST </dev/null, the Protocol line; -tls1_1.
• update-crypto-policies --show; /etc/crypto-policies/back-ends/opensslcnf.config.
• python3 -m http.server 8000 --bind 127.0.0.1 &; tcpdump -i lo -A port 8000, -w FILE, -r FILE; curl -H. tcpdump may switch to its own user before it writes the file: add -Z root.