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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] ssl_generate_keyring_material not enough data togenerate k

From: "Sake Blok" <sake@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 10:25:37 +0100
Title: ssl_generate_keyring_material not enough data to generate key (0x17 required 0x37 or 0x57)
Hi Michael,
 
I tried opening the site myself and it looks like the site is using a certificate bundle with all trusted root certificates as the CA-chain for the server certificate. This results in a SSL certificate handshake message of 55326 bytes. This is fragmented into 4 SSL record layer messages. Either IE is not capable of handling a certificate message that is fragmented, but more likely IE does not accept the CA chain with certificates that do not belong in the chain.
 
You should only put intermediate CA certificates between the server certificate and the root CA that was used for this certificate in the CA chain bundle.
 
Hope this helps,
Cheers,
 
 
Sake
 
PS Wireshark somehow is somehow not capable of dissecting a handshake message that is fragmented, could you open a bug at https://bugs.wireshark.org for this issue, with the capture file you were using?
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 9:28 AM
Subject: [Wireshark-users] ssl_generate_keyring_material not enough data togenerate key (0x17 required 0x37 or 0x57)

Hello,

I'm trying to find out about a nasty bug in MS IE6 (and probably other IE versions).

The URL https://server.arctis.at is not accepted in IE6. I get a "Die Seite kann nicht angezeigt werden" Error " (This page cannot be displayed).

In Firefox this page is working well.

Not finding any applicable hints in Google, I tried to analyze the problem with wireshark.

I have deposited the private RSA-Key in Wireshark, and tried to decrypt the http-communication.

However the decryption fails.

I tried both the stable and the development  (1.1.2) release.

The development release writes into the logfile a line with
    ssl_generate_keyring_material not enough data to generate key (0x17 required 0x37 or 0x57)
which seems for me the key problem for decryption.


I have this problem both for firefox and IE communication. Therefore it seems not to be the cause of the IE problem, but rather a problem with my configuration or with wireshark.

So my question is:
  What could I do, to get a correct decryption?

I attach the sslDebug.log

Thank you for your help

Michael


====== sslDebug.log

ssl_init keys string:
78.47.195.234,443,HTTP,C:\temp\arctis.key
ssl_init found host entry 78.47.195.234,443,HTTP,C:\temp\arctis.key
ssl_init addr '78.47.195.234' port '443' filename 'C:\temp\arctis.key' password(only for p12 file) '(null)'
Private key imported: KeyID F6:C0:64:CA:B9:ED:47:EE:...
ssl_init private key file C:\temp\arctis.key successfully loaded
association_add TCP port 443 protocol HTTP handle 00000000
association_add could not find handle for protocol 'HTTP', try to find 'data' dissector

dissect_ssl enter frame #56 (first time)
ssl_session_init: initializing ptr 04B53288 size 564
association_find: TCP port 4043 found 00000000
packet_from_server: is from server - FALSE
dissect_ssl server 78.47.195.234:443
  conversation = 04B52FD0, ssl_session = 04B53288
  record: offset = 0, reported_length_remaining = 78
client random len: 16 padded to 32

dissect_ssl enter frame #58 (first time)
  conversation = 04B52FD0, ssl_session = 04B53288
  record: offset = 0, reported_length_remaining = 1420
dissect_ssl3_record found version 0x0301 -> state 0x11
dissect_ssl3_record: content_type 22
decrypt_ssl3_record: app_data len 74 ssl, state 0x11
association_find: TCP port 443 found 03D443B8
packet_from_server: is from server - TRUE
decrypt_ssl3_record: using server decoder
decrypt_ssl3_record: no decoder available
dissect_ssl3_handshake iteration 1 type 2 offset 5 length 70 bytes, remaining 79
dissect_ssl3_hnd_hello_common found SERVER RANDOM -> state 0x13
dissect_ssl3_hnd_srv_hello found CIPHER 0x0004 -> state 0x17
dissect_ssl3_hnd_srv_hello trying to generate keys
ssl_generate_keyring_material not enough data to generate key (0x17 required 0x37 or 0x57)
dissect_ssl3_hnd_srv_hello can't generate keyring material
  record: offset = 79, reported_length_remaining = 1341
  need_desegmentation: offset = 79, reported_length_remaining = 1341

dissect_ssl enter frame #74 (first time)
  conversation = 04B52FD0, ssl_session = 04B53288
  record: offset = 0, reported_length_remaining = 16389
dissect_ssl3_record: content_type 22
decrypt_ssl3_record: app_data len 16384 ssl, state 0x17
association_find: TCP port 443 found 03D443B8
packet_from_server: is from server - TRUE
decrypt_ssl3_record: using server decoder
decrypt_ssl3_record: no decoder available
dissect_ssl3_handshake iteration 1 type 11 offset 5 length 55326 bytes, remaining 16389






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