alt Hacker NewsOut of curiosity: How?
They don't offload TLS to the kernel, do they? Most apps do it in userspace linked against openssl afaik.
Do you patch that lib? If ebpf "just" operates at network/packet level, I don't see how it can do more than Mitmproxy in regard to avoid DH-PFS/Pinning
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orev • yesterday at 5:14 PM
eBPF started as a network tool, but (according to the creators of it) targeting the network was just a ploy to get a foot in the door so they could start expanding it to other things. They didn’t think the idea would be accepted if they tried to do it all at once. So now it works on many parts of the system, not just the network.
It’s done via uprobes which allows ebpf to attach to users processes or libraries, basically like ld_preload but built into the kernel. First link that explains it https://blog.quarkslab.com/defeating-ebpf-uprobe-monitoring.... but there are many more links about it and it is a pretty useful tool for debugging in prod environments. (Also first link: https://blog.px.dev/ebpf-function-tracing/) this also the intended use case. px.dev is btw a cncf project which also helps for ebpf debugging in k8s (comes from new relic)