I have seen lots of ppl speaking. Unfortunatelly I'm not sure sure who's
who, so not sure how many, or if any, of those ppl with cvs write acces
spoke up here. Who I would assume are the lead developers here :-)
The way I see having OpenSSL part of Ethereal is great step forward as
incresingly more and more protcols are using some form of crytography
either for authentication and/or secure exchange of data. And increasing
number of protcols is being layered over those. With advent of wireless
networks withere you can't even pretend you have physical wire security,
we can expect see even more of them. For example speaking of EAP alone,
there are already 3 different ways to use SSL for authentication
(EAP-TLS,TEAP,PEAP(#18)), and there are other 32 authentication schemes
for EAP under development.
So it would be convenient to have access to full crytographic suite here,
and not have to duplicate it inside of Ethereal sources. And this suite
would be openssl which consist of libssl and libcryto, which provides both
set of crytographic functions as well TLS implemented on top of them.
In the short term future, the interest is in reassembly of data being
passed over ssl layer. For me it would mean being able to have accepted
the patch which started the thread, as well possible LEAP patches in
future.
Comments?
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Adam
http://www.eax.com The Supreme Headquarters of the 32 bit registers
