Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] kerberos help with automake magic

[ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

yes   it is a longer term project. eliminating external dependencies.

as so many other features,  we 
do have plans for enhancements that are very long time.
(myself i wait until others have "seen the light" so that we drop support for 
capturing  and zipped files   so we can mmap() the capture files and
do much more
interesting inter-packet analysis :-)   not gonna happen anytime soon
though :-( )


On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:45:14 +0200, Thomas Anders
<thomas.anders@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ronnie sahlberg wrote:
> > The best would be in the future to get rid of the heimdal and mit
> > support completely and only depend on nettle.
> 
> That'd be neat, but in the meantime (0.10.7 is approaching), users should
> to be able to switch between MIT/Heimdal and PacketCable.
> MIT and Heimdal can't be built in together, AFAICS (and probably never
> even need to), so the existing "--with-krb5" looks appropriate for switching
> between the two. But for switching between PacketCable (requiring Nettle
> at compile-time) and MIT/Heimdal users currently would need to build
> different Ethereal binaries. I'd rather propose:
> 
> - Short-term solution: introduce (run-time) preference setting to switch
>   between MIT/Heimdal and PacketCable. Allows to *decrypt* only one kind of
>   traffic at one time. Code would need to call corresponding decryption
>   routines based on preference setting.
> 
> - Mid-term solution: allow to specify both MIT/Heimdal keytab file *and*
>   PacketCable Kerberos service key file in preference settings. Auto-detect
>   whether packet is "normal" or PacketCable Kerberos traffic and apply the
>   corresponding decryption routines. Allows to decrypt both kinds of traffic
>   at one time.
> 
> - Long-term solution: Mid-term solution, combined with Ronnies suggestion
>   (only depend on Nettle).
> 
> Comments? Thoughts?
> 
> 
> +Thomas
> 
> --
> Thomas Anders (thomas.anders at blue-cable.de)
> 
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