Wireshark, WPA2, and MacBook Pro

It took me a couple of hours of playing with settings to get the WPA2 decode feature of Wireshark to work. I had to do the following

  • Navigate to Edit > Preferences > Protocols > IEEE 802.11
  • Select Enable Decryption
  • Select Assume Packets have FCS
  • Select Yes – with IV
  • Enter the appropriate keys. To get the keys you may have to do the following
    • Capture data with the 802.11 header setting
    • Filter on EAPOL packets
    • View the key(s) listed in the EAPOL packets
    • Enter those keys in the 802.11 preferences above (e.g. wpa-psk:0011223….)
  • Click OK
  • View captured data and look for TCP packets
  • Click on the “Decrypted…” tab in the lower window
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