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SSLDUMP(1) General Commands Manual SSLDUMP(1) NAME ssldump - dump SSL traffic on a network SYNOPSIS ssldump [ -vTshVq -aAdeHnNqTxXvy ] [ -i interface ] [ -k keyfile ] [ -p password ] [ -r dumpfile ] [ -S [crypto|d|ht|H|nroff] ] [ expression ] DESCRIPTION ssldump is an SSL/TLS network protocol analyzer. It identifies TCP con- nections on the chosen network interface and attempts to interpret them as SSL/TLS traffic. When it identifies SSL/TLS traffic, it decodes the records and displays them in a textual form to stdout. If provided with the appropriate keying material, it will also decrypt the connections and display the application data traffic. ssldump has been tested on FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, and HP/UX. Since it's based on PCAP, it should work on most platforms. However, unlike tcpdump, ssldump needs to be able to see both sides of the data trans- mission so you may have trouble using it with network taps such as SunOS nit that don't permit you to see transmitted data. Under SunOS with nit or bpf: To run tcpdump you must have read access to /dev/nit or /dev/bpf*. Under Solaris with dlpi: You must have read access to the network pseudo device, e.g. /dev/le. Under HP-UX with dlpi: You must be root or it must be installed setuid to root. Under IRIX with snoop: You must be root or it must be installed setuid to root. Under Linux: You must be root or it must be installed setuid to root. Under Ultrix and Digital UNIX: Once the super-user has enabled promiscuous- mode operation using pfconfig(8), any user may run ssldump Under BSD: You must have read access to /dev/bpf*. OPTIONS -a Print bare TCP ACKs (useful for observing Nagle behavior) -A Print all record fields (by default ssldump chooses the most in- teresting fields) -d Display the application data traffic. This usually means de- crypting it, but when -d is used ssldump will also decode appli- cation data traffic before the SSL session initiates. This al- lows you to see HTTPS CONNECT behavior as well as SMTP STARTTLS. As a side effect, since ssldump can't tell whether plaintext is traffic before the initiation of an SSL connection or just a regular TCP connection, this allows you to use ssldump to sniff any TCP connection. ssldump will automatically detect ASCII data and display it directly to the screen. non-ASCII data is displayed as hex dumps. See also -X. -e Print absolute timestamps instead of relative timestamps -H Print the full SSL packet header. -n Don't try to resolve host names from IP addresses -N Attempt to parse ASN.1 when it appears, such as in certificates and DNs. -p Use password as the SSL keyfile password. -P Don't put the interface into promiscuous mode. -q Don't decode any record fields beyond a single summary line. (quiet mode). -T Print the TCP headers. -v Display version and copyright information. -x Print each record in hex, as well as decoding it. -X When the -d option is used, binary data is automatically printed in two columns with a hex dump on the left and the printable characters on the right. -X suppresses the display of the print- able characters, thus making it easier to cut and paste the hex data into some other program. -y Decorate the output for processing with nroff/troff. Not very useful for the average user. -i interface Use interface as the network interface on which to sniff SSL/TLS traffic. -k keyfile Use keyfile as the location of the SSL keyfile (OpenSSL format) Previous versions of ssldump automatically looked in ./server.pem. Now you must specify your keyfile every time. -p password Use password as the SSL keyfile password. -r file Read data from file instead of from the network. The old -f op- tion still works but is deprecated and will probably be removed with the next version. -S [ crypto | d | ht | H ] Specify SSL flags to ssldump. These flags include: crypto Print cryptographic information. d Print fields as decoded. ht Print the handshake type. H Print handshake type and highlights. expression Selects what packets ssldump will examine. Technically speaking, ssldump supports the full expression syntax from PCAP and tcp- dump. In fact, the description here is cribbed from the tcpdump man page. However, since ssldump needs to examine full TCP streams, most of the tcpdump expressions will select traffic mixes that ssldump will simply ignore. Only the expressions which don't result in incomplete TCP streams are listed here. The expression consists of one or more primitives. Primitives usually consist of an id (name or number) preceded by one or more qualifiers. There are three different kinds of qualifier: type qualifiers say what kind of thing the id name or number refers to. Possible types are host, net and port. E.g., `host foo', `net 128.3', `port 20'. If there is no type qualifier, host is assumed. dir qualifiers specify a particular transfer direction to and/or from id. Possible directions are src, dst, src or dst and src and dst. E.g., `src foo', `dst net 128.3', `src or dst port ftp-data'. If there is no dir quali- fier, src or dst is assumed. For `null' link layers (i.e. point to point protocols such as slip) the inbound and outbound qualifiers can be used to specify a desired direction. More complex filter expressions are built up by using the words and, or and not to combine primitives. E.g., `host foo and not port ftp and not port ftp-data'. To save typing, identical qualifier lists can be omitted. E.g., `tcp dst port ftp or ftp- data or domain' is exactly the same as `tcp dst port ftp or tcp dst port ftp-data or tcp dst port domain'. Allowable primitives are: dst host host True if the IPv4/v6 destination field of the packet is host, which may be either an address or a name. src host host True if the IPv4/v6 source field of the packet is host. host host True if either the IPv4/v6 source or destination of the packet is host. Any of the above host expressions can be prepended with the keywords, ip, arp, rarp, or ip6 as in: ip host host which is equivalent to: ether proto \ip and host host If host is a name with multiple IP addresses, each ad- dress will be checked for a match. ether dst ehost True if the ethernet destination address is ehost. Ehost may be either a name from /etc/ethers or a number (see ethers(3N) for numeric format). ether src ehost True if the ethernet source address is ehost. ether host ehost True if either the ethernet source or destination address is ehost. gateway host True if the packet used host as a gateway. I.e., the ethernet source or destination address was host but nei- ther the IP source nor the IP destination was host. Host must be a name and must be found in both /etc/hosts and /etc/ethers. (An equivalent expression is ether host ehost and not host host which can be used with either names or numbers for host / ehost.) This syntax does not work in IPv6-enabled con- figuration at this moment. dst net net True if the IPv4/v6 destination address of the packet has a network number of net. Net may be either a name from /etc/networks or a network number (see networks(4) for details). src net net True if the IPv4/v6 source address of the packet has a network number of net. net net True if either the IPv4/v6 source or destination address of the packet has a network number of net. net net mask mask True if the IP address matches net with the specific net- mask. May be qualified with src or dst. Note that this syntax is not valid for IPv6 net. net net/len True if the IPv4/v6 address matches net a netmask len bits wide. May be qualified with src or dst. dst port port True if the packet is ip/tcp, ip/udp, ip6/tcp or ip6/udp and has a destination port value of port. The port can be a number or a name used in /etc/services (see tcp(4P) and udp(4P)). If a name is used, both the port number and protocol are checked. If a number or ambiguous name is used, only the port number is checked (e.g., dst port 513 will print both tcp/login traffic and udp/who traf- fic, and port domain will print both tcp/domain and udp/domain traffic). src port port True if the packet has a source port value of port. port port True if either the source or destination port of the packet is port. Any of the above port expressions can be prepended with the keywords, tcp or udp, as in: tcp src port port which matches only tcp packets whose source port is port. Primitives may be combined using: A parenthesized group of primitives and operators (paren- theses are special to the Shell and must be escaped). Negation (`!' or `not'). Concatenation (`&&' or `and'). Alternation (`||' or `or'). Negation has highest precedence. Alternation and concatenation have equal precedence and associate left to right. Note that explicit and tokens, not juxtaposition, are now required for concatenation. If an identifier is given without a keyword, the most recent keyword is assumed. For example, not host vs and ace is short for not host vs and host ace which should not be confused with not ( host vs or ace ) Expression arguments can be passed to ssldump as either a single argument or as multiple arguments, whichever is more convenient. Generally, if the expression contains Shell metacharacters, it is easier to pass it as a single, quoted argument. Multiple ar- guments are concatenated with spaces before being parsed. EXAMPLES To listen to traffic on interface le0 port 443 ssldump -i le0 port 443 To listen to traffic to the server romeo on port 443. ssldump -i le0 port 443 and host romeo To decrypt traffic to to host romeo server.pem and the password foobar ssldump -Ad -k ~/server.pem -p foobar -i le0 host romeo OUTPUT FORMAT All output is printed to standard out. ssldump prints an indication of every new TCP connection using a line like the following New TCP connection #2: iromeo.rtfm.com(2302) <-> sr1.rtfm.com(4433) The host which send the first SYN is printed on the left and the host which responded is printed on the right. Ordinarily, this means that the SSL client will be printed on the left with the SSL server on the right. In this case we have a connection from iromeo.rtfm.com (port 2303) to sr1.rtfm.com (port 4433). To allow the user to disentangle traffic from different connections, each connection is numbered. This is connection 2. The printout of each SSL record begins with a record line. This line contains the connection and record number, a timestamp, and the record type, as in the following: 2 3 0.2001 (0.0749) S>C Handshake Certificate This is record 3 on connection 2. The first timestamp is the time since the beginning of the connection. The second is the time since the pre- vious record. Both are in seconds. The next field in the record line is the direction that the record was going. C>S indicates records transmitted from client to server and S>C indicates records transmitted from server to client. ssldump assumes that the host to transmit the first SYN is the SSL client (this is nearly always correct). The next field is the record type, one of Handshake, IAlert, ChangeCi- pherSpec, or application_data. Finally, ssldump may print record-spe- cific data on the rest of the line. For Handshake records, it prints the handshake message. Thus, this record is a Certificate message. ssldump chooses certain record types for further decoding. These are the ones that have proven to be most useful for debugging: ClientHello - version, offered cipher suites, session id if provided) ServerHello - version, session_id, chosen cipher suite, compression method Alert - type and level (if obtainable) Fuller decoding of the various records can be obtained by using the -A , -d , -k and -p flags. DECRYPTION ssldump can decrypt traffic between two hosts if the following two con- ditions are met: 1. ssldump has the keys. 2. Static RSA was used. In any other case, once encryption starts, ssldump will only be able to determine the record type. Consider the following section of a trace. 1 5 0.4129 (0.1983) C>S Handshake ClientKeyExchange 1 6 0.4129 (0.0000) C>S ChangeCipherSpec 1 7 0.4129 (0.0000) C>S Handshake 1 8 0.5585 (0.1456) S>C ChangeCipherSpec 1 9 0.6135 (0.0550) S>C Handshake 1 10 2.3121 (1.6986) C>S application_data 1 11 2.5336 (0.2214) C>S application_data 1 12 2.5545 (0.0209) S>C application_data 1 13 2.5592 (0.0046) S>C application_data 1 14 2.5592 (0.0000) S>C Alert Note that the ClientKeyExchange message type is printed but the rest of the Handshake messages do not have types. These are the Finished mes- sages, but because they are encrypted ssldump only knows that they are of type Handshake. Similarly, had the Alert in record 14 happened dur- ing the handshake, it's type and level would have been printed. How- ever, since it is encrypted we can only tell that it is an alert. BUGS Please send bug reports to ssldump@rtfm.com. The TCP reassembler is not perfect. No attempt is made to reassemble IP fragments and the 3-way handshake and close handshake are imperfectly implemented. In practice, this turns out not to be much of a problem. Support is provided for only for Ethernet and loopback interfaces be- cause that's all that I have. If you have another kind of network you will need to modify pcap_cb in base/pcap-snoop.c. If you have direct experience with ssldump on other networks, please send me patches. ssldump doesn't implement session caching and therefore can't decrypt resumed sessions. SEE ALSO tcpdump(1) AUTHOR ssldump was written by Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>. 28 September 2001 SSLDUMP(1)
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