Mon Mar 31 00:56:53 UTC 2008

Wireshark 1.0 released

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Once known as Ethereal (was that “ether eel” or “eth eer eal”?), the best network protocol analyser in the world has finally made it to version 1.0!

Wireshark is an essential diagnostic tool, that should be on any hacker's machine. It runs on everything – Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, *BSD. It disassembles over 900 different protocols and has a comprehensive SNMP MIB library. For heavy lifting it has a built-in Lua interpreter, which can be used for both taps and dissectors. If you own the private keys, Wireshark will decode your SSL transactions too … http://blogs.sun.com/beuchelt/entry/decrypting_ssl_traffic_with_wireshark explains some more.

Enjoy!