Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 11273] New: Improve "WEP and WPA decryption keys" screen

Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 01:59:06 +0000
Bug ID 11273
Summary Improve "WEP and WPA decryption keys" screen
Product Wireshark
Version 1.99.x (Experimental)
Hardware x86
OS Windows 7
Status UNCONFIRMED
Severity Enhancement
Priority Low
Component Qt UI
Assignee [email protected]
Reporter [email protected]

Build Information:
Version 1.99.7-180-g8e746bd (v1.99.7rc0-180-g8e746bd from master)

Copyright 1998-2015 Gerald Combs <[email protected]> and contributors.
License GPLv2+: GNU GPL version 2 or later
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html>
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Compiled (64-bit) with Qt 5.3.1, with WinPcap (unknown), with libz 1.2.8, with
GLib 2.42.0, with SMI 0.4.8, with c-ares 1.9.1, with Lua 5.2, with GnuTLS
3.2.15, with Gcrypt 1.6.2, with MIT Kerberos, with GeoIP, without PortAudio,
with AirPcap.

Running on 64-bit Windows 7 Service Pack 1, build 7601, with locale C, without
WinPcap, with GnuTLS 3.2.15, with Gcrypt 1.6.2, without AirPcap.
      Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2630QM CPU @ 2.00GHz (with SSE4.2), with 12265MB of
physical memory.


Built using Microsoft Visual C++ 12.0 build 31101

Wireshark is Open Source Software released under the GNU General Public
License.

Check the man page and http://www.wireshark.org for more information.
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Decrypting traffic using this option is not very user friendly. It works fine
but its use is not straight-forward, it requires users to read the
documentation in order to know how to input keys.

It would be nice is the screen was revamped and here is what I propose. It
would only change columns and it should have the following columns (and
validate the value for each item):
- Key type: WEP/WPA (combobox)
- ESSID: optional for WPA passphrase (and greyed in other cases)
- Key: Either WEP key/passsphrase/hash 

And it would be nice to have the same tooltip that we have for each protocol
option in here explaining each option when hovering over column headers (or
field).

Or if it's too much work, add a link explaining how to add keys since it's easy
to make a mistake and switch SSID/Passphrase in WPA mode (and wpa-pwd/wpa-psk
can easily be confused for each other).


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