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One of the problems with the way Wireshark works is that it cant easily analyze encrypted tra c, like TLS. It used to be if you had the private
key(s) you could feed them into Wireshark and it would decrypt the tra c on the y, but it only worked when using RSA for the key exchange
mechanism. As people have started to embrace forward secrecy this broke, as having the private key is no longer enough derive the actual session
key used to decrypt the data. The other problem with this is that a private key should not or can not leave the client, server, or HSM it is in. This
lead me to coming up with very contrived ways of man-in-the-middling myself to decrypt the tra c(e.g. sslstrip or mitmproxy).
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Add a new user variable called SSLKEYLOGFILE and point it at the location that you want the log le to be located at.
On Linux or Mac OS X:
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$ export SSLKEYLOGFILE=~/path/to/sslkeylog.log
~/.bashrc
on Linux, or
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~/.MacOSX/environment
# export SSLKEYLOGFILE=/Users/username/sslkeylogs/output.log
# open -a firefox
# wireshark
Setting up Wireshark
You need at least Wireshark 1.6 for this to work. We simply go into the preferences of Wireshark
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The Results
This is more along the lines of what we normally see when look at a TLS packet,
This is what it looks like when you switch to the Decrypted SSL Data tab. Note that we can now see the request information in plain-text! Success!
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Conclusion
I hope you learned something today, this makes capturing TLS communication so much more straightforward. One of the nice things about this
setup is that the client/server machine that generates the TLS tra c doesnt have to have Wireshark on it, so you dont have to gum up a clients
machine with stu they wont need, you can either have them dump the log to a network share or copy it o the machine and reunite it with the
machine doing the packet capture later. Thanks for stopping by!
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John says:
February 12, 2015 at 6:57 am
Awesome article. Thanks for sharing this tip.
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rstpresCharles says:
February 12, 2015 at 9:52 am
I am using Wireshark 1.12, FIrefox 35.0.1 and Windows 7. I can see my SSL/TLS secrets being populated in my log le, but I am not getting the
Decrypted SSL Data tab. Any thoughts on what I may be doing wrong?
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rstpresCharles says:
February 12, 2015 at 11:03 am
I double checked that Wireshark is pointed at the log le. I shut down everything else and used the far side IP address to con rm
which tra c I was viewing. I will need to keep digging.
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Wayne O says:
February 12, 2015 at 11:49 am
He did say in the article that You need at least Wireshark 1.6 for this to work.. If you are using 1.12, it may not work.
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Micheal says:
July 7, 2016 at 10:50 am
When you look at the packets, you will need to check for a server key exchange packet.Apparently wireshark cannot decrypt ephemeral
di e-hellman encrypted data. So if you see a packet that says server key exchange, thats probably what is happening.unless im wrong.
Please let me know if i am.
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Micheal says:
July 9, 2016 at 7:37 am
How are you sending the DH/DHE key to wire shark to decrypt the TLS tra c?
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rstpresCharles says:
February 13, 2015 at 8:51 am
Thank you for the pointers. I cycled through the security.tls.version.max options as you suggested and con rmed in the captures that the
encryption protocol used was changing accordingly. Unfortunately, I am still not getting the Decrypted SSL Data tab, even when going to the
IETF site you listed. I found some additional information here http://wiki.wireshark.org/SSL, a wireshark -v on my system lists GnuTLS
3.2.15 and Gcrypt 1.6.2. I am using the latest stable version that comes in the Windows installer so I have whatever compile options that it is
built with. I will keep digging.
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Adam R says:
February 13, 2015 at 5:02 pm
Use launchctl setenv SSLKEYLOGFILE=~/Users/papaia/SSLkeylogs/sslkeylog.log instead of export.
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316214 says:
April 19, 2015 at 7:45 pm
launchctl setenv SSLKEYLOGFILE /Users/papaia/Desktop/sslkeylog.log
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andy says:
April 5, 2016 at 8:25 pm
You can use EXPORT command to populate MacOSX environment variables you just have to sudo now.
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Rick says:
May 4, 2016 at 10:21 am
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Setting an environment variable with EXPORT will only apply to that session. Launching a browser or other web client outside of the
session will not have the environment variable set.
If using EXPORT to set SSLKEYLOGFILE, youll have to launch Firefox from the same session.
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David says:
February 12, 2015 at 5:16 pm
Any remotely recent version of Chrome will work just ne now. At the time of the cited blog post (look at the timestamp), the feature was new in
NSS had only hit dev channel.
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s- says:
February 12, 2015 at 7:23 pm
Thanks for the blog entry, much appreciated.
My question is, what bene t would one get by using Wireshark to MitM encrypted web tra c as opposed to BurpSuite?
(http://portswigger.net/burp/)
If there is no bene t, then probably BurpSuite is the easiest way.
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thomas says:
February 13, 2015 at 3:01 am
Great stu !
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Mara says:
February 13, 2015 at 3:47 am
And you got the SSL line or its just the tab you cant see? I didnt see mine coz I was with a proxy. It seems it encapsulate https in http, so you cant
use it to spy on your mates (in this case, at least). Neither you can use it to see app/malware that use their own conection.
Id like to be give a practical exemple of how to use it.
Nice post, btw.
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Mike says:
February 13, 2015 at 8:34 am
Can you think of a way to do the same with a mobile browser? Cant quite nd the same set of options for the mobile browsers.
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JRV says:
February 13, 2015 at 8:48 am
I tried this on Linux Mint 17.1 and FF 35.0.1, double checked that the environmental variable has been set correctly, rebooted and reloaded this
page, but no sslkeylog.log was created. Is a speci c Linux distribution needed to make this work?
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JRV says:
February 13, 2015 at 9:27 am
export says
declare -x SSLKEYLOGFILE=/home/jrv/sslkeylog.log
where jrv is my username and I have write access. More help would be appreciated.
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YoMammy says:
February 16, 2015 at 2:58 pm
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I ended up making the le beforehand and then running the export command and starting refox. Then I had content in my le (mint 17/
35)
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meeee says:
February 14, 2015 at 4:33 am
Hi Jim,
This is a grate tutorial. I have just followed it and it works a treat.
Can I ask a question though.
Is there a way to copy/paste the ASCII from the Decrypted SSL Data tab?? The text is in a small column and would like to be able to copy it into
notepad.
Is this possible or am I missing something?
Thanks
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Tomi says:
February 15, 2015 at 4:03 am
Great stu , thanks Jim!
I got my OS X working only when ring up all related processes using exactly same Terminal-window like this:
1. Open terminal
2. # export SSLKEYLOGFILE=/Users/username/sslkeylogs/output.log
3. # open -a refox
4. # wireshark
This worked for me.
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UR says:
December 10, 2015 at 7:59 am
The SSLKEYLOGFILE was not being written a er following the above procedure. (Mac OS X Yosemite). I spent a few hours trying to gure
this out. The environment variable is being set right. Finally I realized that killing Firefox by clicking on the x (top le ) did not actually kill
refox process, I had to use force quit to kill Firefox. Once I did this and followed your procedure it worked ne. Thanks to Jim Shaver and
Tomi.
Thought this might save a few minutes for another developer.
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Kishore says:
February 19, 2015 at 12:02 pm
Thanks Jim!!
The sslkeylog le doesnt get populated for me. Is there another setting I need to do.
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jim says:
February 20, 2015 at 2:07 pm
I was hoping this was another Lenovo story
But this is more useful and less funny.
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loolo78 says:
March 2, 2015 at 5:34 am
Ive been searching the entire internet for this answer! thank you dearly
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loolo78 says:
March 2, 2015 at 6:01 am
How do I get the TLS key for other applications connections? I want to monitor a jar application right now, and it uses TLS.
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Andrew says:
May 27, 2015 at 3:57 pm
Amazing! (FF wants to be secure??)
Thanks for that info!
Does Wireshark continually read the le, seems FF adds more keys while opening new https-Pages.
I also miss the ssl-decode Tab (FF Ver 1.8.2, newest for Debian stable). But I have a Analyze->Follow SSL-Stream menu. Is that the same? In most
cases this opens an empty window (I think contents cant be decoded). Whats the purpose of Analyze->DecodeAs (SSL) ??
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mike says:
May 28, 2015 at 11:30 am
I could really use some help here. I have some Wireshark packet captures saved on an external HD, I needed to decrypt the SSL. Where would I nd
the key to do this? UGH!!!!
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Ole says:
June 26, 2015 at 8:07 am
How web browser and server know exactly what is the key used for their private communication? Dont they have to at least send this
information over once?
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John says:
July 16, 2015 at 7:21 pm
What can you do to decrypt tra c from a Widows server making a H PS calls to another Windows server if it does not use Firefox or Chrome. For
instance I have a front end CRM server making a call out to a BizTalk server for a speci c URL using 443. I have the proper key from the BizTalk
server imported into my Wireshark but our users use IE not Chrome or Firefox and the CRM server making the call does not either so a sslkey le
does not help in my case or at least it seems from the post only Chrome or Firefox create the log le. We see intermittent issues are happening
between CRM and BizTalk over 443 and we are trying to nd out what is the cause, but our packet captures will not decrypt because of TLSv1 and
TLSv1.2 does not have the master key or some other constraint for decrypting. Surely someone has gured out how to decrypt SSL tra c from IE or
Windows.
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Mike says:
October 28, 2015 at 9:54 am
Try to resize your editor window so you see the hole key on one line. I thought this too, and then recognized that there are only a
few rsa keys if any. if you dont have any at all, try to capture a login on youtube or googledrive or something. then you should
have some rsa values.
Beware: if the selected cypher suite uses ephemeral modes of DH you will not have the needed keys in your log and will not be
able to decrypt your tra c. At least that#s what I have found out so far playing with this stu and searching the web
Hope this helps. Let me know if you nd better info than me
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Mike says:
October 8, 2015 at 10:00 am
Does this still work? My variable does not get populated. Using Kubuntu 15.04 and Firefox 41.0.1 or Chromium 45.0.2454.101
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Mike says:
October 28, 2015 at 4:02 am
Yes, it does I have to start the browser from the terminal, otherwise the keylog le stays empty. Now I have the problem, that I cannot see
the HTML body. The HTML header gets encrypted, but the rest of the package is still jiberish. Thanks for this nice tut. helped me out a lot
already
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dhrubo says:
July 22, 2016 at 12:14 pm
I am having the same problem. Cant see the HTML body. Do you know if there is any way out?
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gbajson says:
December 22, 2015 at 8:40 am
Thanks a lot for this very good article.
One question, how did you nd this SSLKEYLOGFILE variable? In FF sources?
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gbajson says:
December 22, 2015 at 9:09 am
Thanks!
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Manyam says:
January 22, 2016 at 8:05 pm
Hi, I am struct at providing the pre-master-secret to Wireshark to decrypt the RSA Premaster key. I have the 48 bytes of pre-master-secret, but i
dont know in which format i have to give. Could some one please help me. Thanks!
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Mike says:
January 31, 2016 at 8:53 pm
Cant get this to work now (it used to work before) Has anything changed with OSX 10.11.3, Firefox 44 or Chrome 48?
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Mike-anotherone:) says:
February 1, 2016 at 11:04 am
I had a the problem last week that would not write the keys into the sysvar. that happened a er an update. A er having that problem on
kubuntu and debian i gured it must have been an update of the kernel or something like that. One week later so today, i made another sysupdate and it works again so maybe youll just have to wait a few days until apple nds out that they killed the feature good luck!
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adfsadf says:
April 20, 2016 at 4:18 pm
No luck with this method. I can get it to work as describe but it basically does the same as the Live H P Headers plugin for Firefox. You get to
see the headers.
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adfsadf says:
April 20, 2016 at 4:22 pm
I guess this is what you are supposed to get. But you go not get the decrypt tab
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Ulrich says:
April 26, 2016 at 6:51 am
Great explanation, thanks so far.
But reading out until here, using all hints above, I was unable to get Firefox populating this sslkeylog le. I am using Win7 (64 Bit) and the current
Firefox version 45.0.2
The only hit I found was on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/Key_Log_Format
saying that this feature is disabled in Firefox 48, which confused me totally, since we are currently on 45. Or do they have a time machine?
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Ulrich says:
April 26, 2016 at 9:07 am
Thanks for taking care of this. By the way, in the meantime I installed Chrome in parallell to Firefox and was also unable to populate the
ssl eylogile with it. Do you know whether the Chrome people removed this feature as well (although stated otherwise in the discussion you pointed
me to)?
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Ankush says:
June 25, 2016 at 8:03 am
I am using rsa 2048 bits long key and certi cate in apache webserver. i am using key log le and debug le in SSL preferences and
setup the path to my generated private key.
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Ankush says:
May 8, 2016 at 3:59 pm
Hello Jim,
I have my localhost running on Apache 2.4.20 on port 443 for http-2 and I need to capture this tra c. I have created a self-signed certi cate and key
for apache webserver con guration.
Kindly suggest on how to proceed further in this case.
Regards,
Ankush.
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Timo says:
May 21, 2016 at 4:37 am
Thanks, really helped me a lot
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Johnny says:
June 22, 2016 at 10:27 am
You are the fountain in my desert my friend! This is an awesome article. Thank you!
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Johnny says:
June 23, 2016 at 12:59 am
I tried the SSL decryption on the https accesses from my own laptop and it works perfectly!
I have SPAN con gured on my Cisco switch that forwards all tra c to my Laptops interface.
So i followed what you said at the conclusion, the or copy it o the machine and reunite it with the machine doing the packet capture
later. But the Wireshark captures still says TLS Application data.
What could be wrong?
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Johnny says:
June 23, 2016 at 10:51 pm
Thats right. Ive con gured the client PCs to log their ssl keys and save them locally. Meanwhile, I capture tra c through
the switch on my admin Laptop. I later get the logs from the client PCs to use with my wireshark.
This doesnt seem to work like when I decrypted tra c from the laptop im at.
Johnny says:
June 24, 2016 at 1:11 am
Thats right..
Teja says:
August 10, 2016 at 5:42 pm
Excellent article!!!. Really appreciate it.
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Dan says:
August 19, 2016 at 3:48 am
This is great for Wireshark users. I hope that Telerik will add it to Fiddler, if its at all possible (https:// ddler.ideas.aha.io/ideas/FID-I-65)
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q2dg says:
September 26, 2016 at 3:20 pm
Well, it seems this method doest work with Firefox 48+ anymore (see https://developer.mozilla.org/enUS/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/Key_Log_Format).
Maybe, perhaps, in Firefox 50 will work again, but, meanwhile
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Obum says:
September 30, 2016 at 1:43 am
Hi. Nice article. I notice that this is good to decrypt secured connections on the y. How can an encrypted captured packet be decrypted
with/without the key provided. Thanks.
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