RE: Encryption Algorithm Footprint

From: Ed Moyle (emoyleat_private)
Date: Wed Feb 06 2002 - 09:37:47 PST

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    Haiyan Chen wrote:
    
    > stock exchange. By using ethereal I found the data packets was encypted like in SSL. Next I
    > found the private key in my server and encypted symmetric key payload in the captured 
    > packets. After successfully decrypting the 16- bytes symmetric key, I test many encryption 
    > algorithm to decrypted the captured ciphertext, but all failed.
    
    > I want to know if encryption algorithm has footprint. Is there any technica to find which 
    > encryption algorithm it used?
    
    SSL, you say?  I seem to recall that some switch in ssldump will tell you about the negotiated ciphersuite...  here's the location of the manpage... http://www.rtfm.com/ssldump/Ssldump.html
    



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