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by KingMachiavelli 2664 days ago
Why? If you have the private key you can decrypt TLS traffic if forward secrecy is off. Which is why forward secrecy exists, to prevent captured encrypted sessions form being decrypted out-of-band with, presumably, comprimised private keys.

The issue is that TLS 1.3 deprecates the key exchange that makes this possible, essentially making (perfect) forward secrecy a requirement since the only inlcuded ciphers do so. The only way to monitor/inspect TLS traffic in this situation is to MITM the traffic rather than simply record encrypted sessions.

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It's deceptive to call out-of-band MITM not MITM, it's still MITM just covert. TLSv1.3 forcing it to become glaringly obvious is exactly what should be happening.