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Disable FortiGate SSL Inspection

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FortiGate SSL inspection is the process of intercepting SSL/TLS encrypted Internet communication between the client and the server. Interception can be performed between the sender and the receiver and vice versa (receiver to sender). It is the same technique used in man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks without the consent of both entities.

FortiGate SSL Deep Inspection in Practice

When Deep FortiGate inspection is used, the FortiGate impersonates the recipient of the originating SSL session. Then decrypts and inspects the content to find threats and block them. It then re-encrypts the content and sends it to the real recipient.

In practice, this sometimes leads to unwanted blocking, especially when using self-signed SSL certificates, and the FortiGate behaves like a black box. It is also often found that the connection to the Exchange Server is denied for Outlook clients, with Outlook issuing the following error.

There is a problem with the proxy server’s security certificate.
The name on the security certificate is invalid or does not match the name mail.example.org.
Outlook cannot connect to the proxy server. (Error code 8000000).

To disable the FortiGate SSL inspection completely, you can create a clone for the Read-only Profile no-inspection under Security Profiles – SSL/SSH Inspection and configure it accordingly.

FortiGate SSL Inspection Profile Clone

Under Protocol Port Mapping an unused port is entered for HTTPS. Which means that SSL Deep Inspection no longer takes place for port 443.

Enable the configured custom-no-inspection profile for the corresponding policy. For policies for internal and VPN connections, SSL/TLS deep inspection should not be required.

Mark Block and Area in Windows Terminal

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In addition to the ability to mark a character, a word and lines, windows terminal also provides to mark a block.

A marking mode that can be particularly useful for tabular work. It is allowed to mark and edit information that is directly adjacent to each other, without including the entire lines in the marking and editing.

Mark block and area in Windows Terminal.

The Alt key is used for the block marking. Position the mouse pointer at the beginning or end of the block, press the Alt key together with the left mouse button and drag the marker to the other end of the block. The selected block is automatically copied to the clipboard.

About Windows Terminal (wt)

Windows Terminal is a multi-tabbed terminal emulator developed by Microsoft for Windows 10 and later. As a replacement for Windows Console. It can run any command-line app in a separate tab. It is preconfigured to run Command Prompt, PowerShell, WSL, SSH, and Azure Cloud Shell Connector. Windows Terminal comes with its own rendering back-end. Version 1.11 on Windows 11, command-line apps can run using this newer back-end instead of the old Windows Console.

Since Windows 11 22H2 and Windows Terminal 1.15, Windows Terminal replaces Windows Console as the default.

Terminal is a command-line front-end. It can run multiple command-line apps, including text-based shells in a multi-tabbed window. They has out-of-the-box support for Command Prompt, PowerShell, and Bash on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). It can natively connect to Azure Cloud Shell.