Description: Revise ssldump.1 for correctness and completeness Author: Simon Law --- ssldump.1 +++ ssldump.1 @@ -61,12 +61,9 @@ ssldump \- dump SSL traffic on a network .na .B ssldump [ -.B \-vtaTnsAxXhHVNdq +.B \-vTshVq +.B \-aAdeHnNqTxXvy ] [ -.B \-r -.I dumpfile -] -[ .B \-i .I interface ] @@ -81,6 +78,16 @@ ssldump \- dump SSL traffic on a network .I password ] [ +.B \-r +.I dumpfile +] +.br +.ti +8 +[ +.B \-S +.RI [\| crypto \||\| d \||\| ht \||\| H \||\| nroff \|] +] +[ .I expression ] .br @@ -125,6 +132,7 @@ any user may run You must have read access to .IR /dev/bpf* . .SH OPTIONS +.TP .B \-a Print bare TCP ACKs (useful for observing Nagle behavior) .TP @@ -135,7 +143,7 @@ the most interesting fields) .B \-d Display the application data traffic. This usually means decrypting it, but when -d is used ssldump will also decode -application data traffic _before_ the SSL session initiates. +application data traffic \fIbefore\fP the SSL session initiates. This allows 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 @@ -148,18 +156,9 @@ dumps. See also -X. .B \-e Print absolute timestamps instead of relative timestamps .TP -.B \-r -Read data from \fIfile\fP instead of from the network. -The old -f option still works but is deprecated and will -probably be removed with the next version. .B \-H Print the full SSL packet header. .TP -.B \-k -Use \fIkeyfile\fP 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. -.TP .B \-n Don't try to resolve host names from IP addresses .TP @@ -176,6 +175,12 @@ Don't put the interface into promiscuous .B \-q Don't decode any record fields beyond a single summary line. (quiet mode). .TP +.B \-T +Print the TCP headers. +.TP +.B \-v +Display version and copyright information. +.TP .B \-x Print each record in hex, as well as decoding it. .TP @@ -183,13 +188,48 @@ Print each record in hex, as well as dec 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 printable characters, -thus making it easier to cut and paste the hext data into some other +thus making it easier to cut and paste the hex data into some other program. +.TP .B \-y -Decorate the output for processing with troff. Not very +Decorate the output for processing with nroff/troff. Not very useful for the average user. .TP -.IP "\fI expression\fP" +.BI \-i " interface" +Use \fIinterface\fP as the network interface on which to sniff SSL/TLS +traffic. +.TP +.BI \-k " keyfile" +Use \fIkeyfile\fP 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. +.TP +.BI \-p " password" +Use \fIpassword\fP as the SSL keyfile password. +.TP +.BI \-r " file" +Read data from \fIfile\fP instead of from the network. +The old -f option still works but is deprecated and will +probably be removed with the next version. +.TP +.BI \-S " [ " crypto " | " d " | " ht " | " H " ]" +Specify SSL flags to ssldump. These flags include: +.RS +.TP +.I crypto +Print cryptographic information. +.TP +.I d +Print fields as decoded. +.TP +.I ht +Print the handshake type. +.TP +.I H +Print handshake type and highlights. +.RE +.TP +\fIexpression\fP .RS Selects what packets ssldump will examine. Technically speaking, ssldump supports the full expression syntax from PCAP and tcpdump. @@ -200,7 +240,7 @@ that ssldump will simply ignore. Only th don't result in incomplete TCP streams are listed here. .LP The \fIexpression\fP consists of one or more -.I primitives. +.IR primitives . Primitives usually consist of an .I id (name or number) preceded by one or more qualifiers. There are three @@ -512,5 +552,11 @@ direct experience with ssldump on other .LP ssldump doesn't implement session caching and therefore can't decrypt resumed sessions. - - +.LP +.SH SEE ALSO +.LP +.BR tcpdump (1) +.LP +.SH AUTHOR +.LP +ssldump was written by Eric Rescorla .