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by closeparen 3419 days ago
>The MITM proxy cannot present the client certificate to the server, since it doesn't have the corresponding private key.

The MITM proxy is operated by the same department that has root on all the endpoints it's intercepting. If necessary, the "endpoint protection" product will grab the private key, or just scrape the details of the browser session from the browser's memory rather than at network level.

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Grabbing the client certificate private key is not always possible; it can be on a smart card (and even when on a file, it could be password-protected). Also, the operators of the MITM proxy do not necessarily have root on the endpoints (they can require the users to add the CA certificate themselves), and even if they have, scraping the session keys from the often-updated browser is not trivial.