Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] RPCSEC_GSS packet decoding

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 23:56:21 -0700
On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 07:41:36PM -0400, Mike Frisch wrote:
> As far as I can see, it appears that only NLM and NFS use RPCSEC_GSS and
> the dissectors for these protocols will have to be handled separately.

Why couldn't the ONC RPC dissector do the decryption, etc., construct a
tvbuff for the decrypted data, and hand it to the subdissector, so that
the subdissectors don't need to know about the checksum for data
integrity or encryption for data privacy?