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Key Extraction (Help/Hint Wanted)

HI all,

Hope you are all safe!!

I need some help with an exercise I have if anyone can help?

The task is, given a PCAP file, I believe I need to extract a private key from within the PCAP, and then re-apply said key to the same PCAP file via WSharks preferences > SSL > etc... to decrypt the traffic.

I am pretty certain I have found the Private Key, and have extracted and saved it to a text file.

"-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY----- MIIEvQIBADANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAASCBKcwggSjAg....etc..etc..."

I then try to reapply the key in the aforementioned preferences, but it doesn't work.

I have been trying this for about 2 weeks now, and have probably watched half of youtube and read 2 dozen articles of the on-the-line content on the webznet. I have also now started to doubt myself and think i need to use PreMasters etc.. which I have also located.

Could someone please point me in the right direction? Please don't give the answer. A document or youtube, or anything I can use to move forwards would be great.

Thanks. C.

Key Extraction (Help/Hint Wanted)

HI all,

Hope you are all safe!!

I need some help with an exercise I have if anyone can help?

The task is, given a PCAP file, I believe I need to extract a private key from within the PCAP, and then re-apply said key to the same PCAP file via WSharks preferences > SSL > etc... to decrypt the traffic.

I am pretty certain I have found the Private Key, and have extracted and saved it to a text file.

"-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY----- MIIEvQIBADANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAASCBKcwggSjAg....etc..etc..."

I then try to reapply the key in the aforementioned preferences, but it doesn't work.

I have been trying this for about 2 weeks now, and have probably watched half of youtube and read 2 dozen articles of the on-the-line content on the webznet. I have also now started to doubt myself and think i need to use PreMasters etc.. which I have also located.

Could someone please point me in the right direction? Please don't give the answer. A document or youtube, or anything I can use to move forwards would be great.

Thanks. C.