On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 08:38:45PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote:
> What you need is the server private key (and of course the password to
> decrypt it). You appear to have it, but I would double check with the
> openssl rsa command. ssldump will silently ignore an incorrect password.
> 
> Also, ssldump will not decrypt resumed ssl sessions. You can detect whether
> the session was resumed by looking at the session id's in the clear text
> handshake messages.

And ssldump can only decrypt sessions with static RSA. It cannot decrypt
communication with EDH cyphers. Since s_server has default DH parameters
built in, an openssl s_client connecting to an s_server will use a EDH
cipher and ssldump cannot decrypt the message, unless the cipher choice
is explicitely changed using the -cipher option. Netscape does not support
EDH ciphers and defaults to RC4-MD5 when using an openssl server, so
decryption is possible.

Best regards,
        Lutz
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