Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] export the private key on Windows?

[Sake Blok <sake@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 01:00:32PM -0400, Mark Roggenkamp wrote:
> Also, if the https session isn't using client auth then you probably only
> need the private key of the WebSeal host.

Even if the https-connection IS using a client-certificate, the private
key of the client-certificate is only used for authentication and is not 
taking part in the encryption of the session. Only the private key of 
the server-certificate is used to generate the session-keys :)

Cheers,


Sake