Decrypting TLS/SSL traffic with Wireshark
2 min readApr 12, 2009
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Wireshark is capable of decrypting TLS/SSL traffic when certain conditions are met:
- Wireshark was compiled with SSL decryption support (
--with-gnutls
) - RSA is used for key exchange
- You have server’s private key in PEM format (convert if necessary)
- You can capture the initial TLS/SSL Handshake
Configuring
Wireshark needs to be configured for SSL decryption by defining a specially formatted string which contains server’s IP…