bitcoin-wireshark

A wireshark dissector for the bitcoin protocol.

The packet-bitcoin.c dissector was originally taken from https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark/commit/d4eeeaf6d463f930c89e9026b682339e1e114b34

Build instructions:

• Download wireshark source either from http://www.wireshark.org/download/src/all-versions/ or https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark
• Clone this repository (outside the wireshark directory)
• Copy the packet-bitcoin.c file from this repository into epan/dissectors in the wireshark directory (either copying the file or creating a symlink)
• Rebuild Wireshark by running make && sudo make install
• run the decoder test in this repository ./test-decoder

Wireshark dependencies

Building wireshark has a lot of dependencies. On ubuntu, I had to apt-get the following:

• automake
• autoconf
• pkg-config
• libtool-bin
• python
• bison
• byacc
• flex
• libglib2.0-dev
• libqt4-designer libqt4-opengl libqt4-svg libqtgui4 libqtwebkit4
• qt4-dev-tools
• libpcap-dev