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How can I decode SQL Server traffic with wireshark?

Asked 2010-01-07T20:54:27.423
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I can capture the packets using wireshark, but I can't decode the stream into anything intelligible.

This item in the WireShark bug database suggests that maybe this isn't possible in SQL Server 2005 or newer. But several people on Stack Overflow claimed this was a good method in answers to this question:

How to validate SQL Server traffic is encrypted?

Any help appreciated.

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The question that you are refering to is how to prove that the traffic is encrypted.

So they were using wireshark to show that you could not read it.

The encryption was weak on earlier versions of SQL server, but I don't think that it is easy to decrypt SQL Server 2005 traffic.

answered 2010-01-07T21:13:01.847

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