Ethereal-dev: RE: [Ethereal-dev] need some help

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From: Jeff Foster <jfoste@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 08:55:29 -0500
From: Sandesh
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 4:02 AM

> I have some doubts regarding SSL protocol.
> I have an ethreal sniffer (a LAN analyzer) , which supports SSL protocol.
I
> would like to know the means to capture live SSL data.
> According to what i had conceived , I felt that by making a secure
> transcation, say shopping on the net , i could capture data for SSL using
> ethreal sniffer, but it was not possible. i would like to know the
effective
> means by which i could capture effective data.
> 
> In my environment , I have a Windows 98 PC coneected to a LAN, having
> ethreal sniffer which supports SSL, please let me know how to capture SSL
> data.

Do you want to see the encrypted data? Well ethereal won't do that,
you should look at ssldump. Even then the ssldecoder will have to
have the encryption keys to decode the data.  

The ssldump home page is http://www.rtfm.com/ssldump/

Jeff Foster
jfoste@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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