Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Debugging SSHv2, decrypting data

From: Stephen Fisher <stephentfisher@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:48:27 -0600
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 04:49:20PM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote:

> I'm working on tracking down a bizarre interaction between 2 remote 
> systems.
> 
> In order to track this down, I'm looking for a means to decrypt the 
> session and packet contents from a *.pcap file, so I can see exactly 
> what data are in this packet that's causing the connection to slam 
> shut (only happens in SSH).

Wireshark does not support decrypting SSH sessions at this time.

You may have already tried this, but I usually put the OpenSSH daemon 
(if that's what you're using) on the machine you're connecting to to 
debug/interactive (non-daemon/background) mode.


Steve