have a look at http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/S/SSL.html
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography Andrew On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 10:47 +0200, Asaf wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the info, what I don’t get is how does my browser can get > it? How does it encrypt the data? It will use the public key to > decrypt it, and the server should send it the key to decrypt the > session, no? > > > > Thanks, > > Asaf. > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kukosa, > Tomas > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 8:37 AM > To: Community support list for Wireshark > Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] SSL Decrypt > > > > > Hi, > > > > yes, you need private server key. You have to be server administrator > to get it somewhere from the server. > > You can not get it if you are only the client. > > > > > Regards, > > > Tomas > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Asaf > Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 3:02 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Wireshark-users] SSL Decrypt > > Hi, > > > > I understand that I need the Private key of the server in order to > decrypt the data in SSL, am I right? If so, I need to get my hands on > it… > > How it is obtained? (in Windows) if I use the explorer to view the > certificate of the server, and then ask – Copy to file, I can save it > with DER encoded binary X.509 (.CER), and then I can use OpenSSL to > convert it to PEM right? But in this way I get the Public key of the > server, no? > > Could some one please explain to me if I need the public\private key > of the server and also how do I get it? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Asaf. > > > _______________________________________________ > Wireshark-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users _______________________________________________ Wireshark-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-users
