Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Saving without payload

["WATT DAVE" <Dave.Watt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for everyone’s responses.

 

Obviously the more we strip out, the less useful is the information, but to be able to get the capture from the customer we need to anonymise the IPs and strip out the payload as a minimum requirement – that would probably get approved by their security people.

 

In terms of ‘what is the payload?’.  In the following example (Sky Player from an Xbox), we just need the first 4 sections, not the HTTP content in the last (5^th) section:

 

And anonymising would mean allocating a random, but consistent alternate IP, e.g. 213.244.190.37 would always be 20.67.1.192, but this would be randomly selected by the Anonymiser (new super-hero!).

 

Cheers,

Dave

 

From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Visser
Sent: 30 November 2009 02:17
To: Community support list for Wireshark
Cc: JONES IAN D; MAGNIES Nicolas
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] Saving without payload

 

I guess the question any one will ask "What is the definition of payload?". One man's header is another man's data. I

 

f you want to properly obfuscate your capture data you would want to jitter your timestamps (so people don't know when you are sending), change your IP address (as you already indicated), translate or zero your TCP and UDP ports (so baddies don't know what protocol your sending), and zero or at least transmogrify segment/datagram contents. But of course then you possibly have little use of what you had captured.

 

Regards, Martin

MartinVisser99@xxxxxxxxx

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:22 PM, WATT DAVE <Dave.Watt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We have a high priority requirement to save the capture, stripping out ALL payload bytes.  This is for UK legal  compliance when analysing traffic subject to data protection.

I can easily just capture the first 68 bytes of each packet, but that will sometimes include the first part of the payload.

Ideally, we want to capture everything and then save only the headers.

We would also like to be able to ‘anonymise’ the IP addresses during the save.

Can Wireshark do any of this?  It would seem to be a useful feature required in many countries where such data protection is in place.

Without doing this we cannot mail the capture file to R&D for investigation, in fact we cannot even save the capture  to a local disk.

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