ssldump
Tool and Usage
Project details
- Author
- Eric Rescorla
- Latest release
- 0.9b3
- Latest release date
Project health
Links
| Project website |
How it works
While the tool is listening, it attempts to interpret any SSLv3/TLS traffic it sees. Any related information will be displayed (text to stdout). When the tool has been given any key details, it will decrypt the traffic and show application data inside the streams.
Background information
The ssldump project is hosted on SourceForge. While that is not bad, it gives away the age of the project.
Usage and audience
ssldump is commonly used for network analysis. Target users for this tool are security professionals.
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + The source code of this software is available
Weaknesses
- - No updates for a while
Installation
Supported operating systems
Ssldump is known to work on FreeBSD and Linux.
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Categories
This tool is categorized as a SSL analyzer tool and network protocol testing tool.