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.
>
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> ______________________________________________________________________
> From:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 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.
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> Regards,
>
>
> Tomas
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> ______________________________________________________________________
> From:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Asaf
> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 3:02 PM
> To: Wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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.
>
>
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