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On the main UI screen of Wireshark (Windows), there is a SSH remote capture option in Capture section below Wireless & LAN options. While setting the options in the Extcap Interface options (by clicking the small black gear icon on the left of the options), I want to mention my private key for SSH. But no matter what file format I specify, the field stays red and the start button is grayed out. But if I specify a password instead it works. So how do I specify the private key? Is there some specific format etc.?
agent420
Posted 2017-03-01T09:57:44.123
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If you don't receive an answer here, I would suggest asking it at http://ask.wireshark.org or on the wireshark-users mailing list (subscribe at https://www.wireshark.org/lists/). It may be that there's a bug in Wireshark that was fixed in master but not backported to 2.2.4. In any case, the folks monitoring those sites will likely be better able to answer your question.
– Christopher Maynard – 2017-03-01T15:32:10.680the same question was asked on ask.wireshark.org on Oct 7,2016 : https://ask.wireshark.org/questions/56228/why-is-my-ssh-key-rejected-by-ssh-remote-capture No response till now. So I asked here hoping someone would know something
– agent420 – 2017-03-02T03:34:58.413OK, well I added a comment to the question so that it will trickle up to a more prominent position in the hope that someone who knows more about it will see it and can hopefully provide some help. We'll see what happens ... – Christopher Maynard – 2017-03-02T14:58:53.367