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swo0sh_gt_13163
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Jul 25, 2014

Unable to generate PMS Key to decrypt SSL Traffic in Wireshark.

Hello Folks, Recently I was troubleshooting an issue, where SSL Offloading was configured on F5. I wanted to wrap off the TLS in order to analyze HTTP traffic. While generate the PMS key, I found f...
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Kevin_K_51432
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Jul 25, 2014

Hi Darshan, I'm not very familiar with that error. What little testing I did shows this may be due to using the wrong name. There is dtca.key, but no dtca1.key:

 ssldump -k /config/ssl/ssl.key/dtca.key -r /var/tmp/this.dmp port 443
 ssldump -k /config/ssl/ssl.key/dtca1.key -r /var/tmp/this.dmp port 443
Problem loading private key
ERROR: Couldn't create network handler

Hope this offers some help.

Kevin