On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:19:43 -0800, "frap puccino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I work for the Navy and because some of our lab captures are done in a > secret/classified environment, in order to remove the traces from the > lab, > we need to make them human readable to ensure to security officials that > there isn't secret data hidden in the traces. Although we could provide > "tcpdump -w" output, the problem we have is that we'd still like to be > able > to use analyzer tools that require libpcap format data after the data > leaves > the secret/classified lab. So we are looking into ways to translate > libpcap > binary outputs to readable text then back to libpcap binary format. > > We were hoping someone has already written a utility that would translate > libpcap output into something human readable, such as xml, and perhaps > there > would then be a capability to translate it back to libpcap format too. > If > anyone has heard about something out there that does this, please let us > know. > > Any feedback on other ideas to make this work would be appreciated.
To find ascii strings in binary files, I use the "strings" command. It works on any file (binary or not). -Marc _______________________________________________ Wireshark-dev mailing list Wireshark-dev@wireshark.org http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-dev
