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Why is the issuer certificate of my home & office different?

Asked by Andrea Bailey Apr 8, 2022 651 views 1 answer
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I have viewed Gmail's certificate chain at my workplace, and I realised it's different. It looks like this:

Root CA Operative CA1___________.net mail.google.com

When I get the certificate chain at home, it looks like this:

GeoTrust Global CA  Google Internet Authority G2 *.google.com


Obviously these certificates are issued by my company. I recently read some other thread on security.stackexchange, and they said the company is eavesdropping (using an MITM proxy) the HTTPS communications to protect the internal network and the client machine against viruses. That means they can read all of the encrypted package that has been sent via HTTPS, including this message too.

If this is true, can I work around this?

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