Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] tshark option to decrypt SSL?

From: Sake Blok <sake@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 17:14:30 +0200
On 9 sep 2010, at 16:30, James Hozier wrote:

> Here is what I have so far:
> tshark -tad -lnx -d tcp.port==4040,irc -R 'irc'
> 
> What should I add in order for it to capture and also decrypt SSL traffic
> as well, with the private server certificate on the machine this is being
> run from?

If traffic on port 4040 is SSL encrypted IRC traffic, then you would use the following:

tshark -tad -lnx -o ssl.keys_list:<server-ip>,4040,irc,<path-to-private-key> -R irc

You might want to use -V as well to get full protocol decodes, including the decrypted irc details.

Cheers,


Sake