Just wanted to write a quick note about a great new group that F5 Networks is forming for regional centers to help support its user base. Its an old fashion style user group, born out of the devcentral user forums. Its a great way to meet your peers and trade ideas and issues you may [...]
One of the most difficult things to analyze is traffic that’s been encrypted. Some might say, well duh, thats the idea isn’t it? We want it to be difficult for someone to peak into what we are doing on the web. Especially if its our private banking, financial type stuff, right?
In this article I don’t plan to cover every last detail for decrypting and analyzing network traffic. I will just providing the basics and a high level overview of what is needed to get started. Later on I will write a detailed article on some of the finer points of analysis. But for discussions on cracking codes and decoding network traffic, you will need to go elsewhere.