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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 8925] Can't edit esp_sa file to decrypt ESP packets

Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 12:42:37 +0000

Comment # 5 on bug 8925 from
(In reply to yoshpe from comment #4)
> You're right! I've looked into the function
> esp_sa_record_add_from_dissector() but this only allows dissectors from
> within Wireshark to add new records.
> But I want external programs to be able to easily add new records.
> 
> I also prefer packets not to be re-dissected (automatically) since the
> capture might be pretty big (and might be live and on-going), and reloading
> it takes time and will break the live capture. 
> One can always hit reload immediately after reloading the configuration.
> Maybe this should even be coupled together with reloading.
> 
> About the name UAT, you might be correct. It can be changed to Reload
> dissector configurations.

Again, it may not suit you, but you could have your script send a simply
formatted packet with the new record details (rather than write to esp_sa) to
the machine running wireshark for a simple dissector to pick up.  Though if the
script is running on same machine as wireshark and you are running windows you
won't be readily able to capture lookback packets..


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