Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Somebody said something about Ethereal having SSLDump like

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 13:17:56 -0700

On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 1:03 PM, Hobbs, David wrote:


I was talking to an SE for an equipment manufacturer who said that one
of his dev guys was demonstrating SSL decryption in Ethereal.  I've
worked with SSLDump and have used it with private keys to decode ssl/tls 
transactions before.  Has anybody heard of a plugin or module to
Ethereal that allows you to feed a private key into the stream to
decrypt the traffic?
If there were such a plugin, it'd have to be a replacement for Ethereal's existing SSL dissector, as
1) the only type of plugins Ethereal currently supports are packet dissectors - you can't plug into existing dissectors and add capabilities to them; 

	2) Ethereal's SSL dissector doesn't currently do any decryption.
If somebody's implemented SSL decryption, and there aren't any licensing issues with their code (i.e., if we can put it into a GPLed application such as Ethereal), we'd like to see the code to consider it for inclusion in Ethereal.