# google/ssl_logger

Decrypts and logs a process's SSL traffic.

Repository: https://github.com/google/ssl_logger
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ssl_logger
Language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2020-10-20T11:32:22+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3352, "days_push": 2143, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1119, forks 208 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:39.478022+00:00)

## What it is
A Python command-line tool that decrypts and logs a running process's SSL/TLS traffic, mimicking Echo Mirage's SSL logging on Linux and macOS. It can print decrypted SSL reads/writes to the console or write them to a PCAP file.

## Use cases
- decrypt ssl traffic of a running process
- log https requests made by a program to a pcap file
- inspect what a binary sends over tls without a proxy
- reverse engineer an application's encrypted network protocol
- capture decrypted ssl payloads for security analysis

## When to choose
- you need to see plaintext SSL/TLS traffic of a specific local process on Linux or macOS
- you want decrypted traffic saved as a PCAP for analysis in Wireshark
- you need a lightweight scriptable alternative to Echo Mirage

## When to avoid
- you need to intercept traffic on Windows
- you need a maintained tool with recent updates and broad TLS version support
- you want system-wide traffic capture rather than per-process logging
- you cannot run the target process with instrumentation (e.g., hardened or remote processes)

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: security, networking, developer-tools
- domain: security, penetration-testing, networking
- platform: python, cli
- tags: ssl-decryption, traffic-logging, pcap, process-monitoring, tls-inspection, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- google/ssl_logger (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:39.478022+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:41:11.513386+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/google/ssl_logger (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:39.478022+00:00, sha f511517368f8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.