Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Kasumi code (Was: rev 44384: ... kasumi.h ...)

[Jacob Nordgren <jacob.nordgren@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi.

Well perhaps someone then can add KASUMI later on, or even better 
perhaps an permission from ETSI could be secured in the future. :D

I do however want to stress that we have labeled UMTS decryption as 
"experimental" and thats probably a bit of an understatement,
since we only have one ciphered capture to work with (that one at least 
works :D), and the actual configuration of ciphering in UTMS is 
surprisingly complex.
 And given that KASUMI isn't used in many other applications? Maybe its 
better for the moment to try to focus on making RLC and RRC ciphering 
configuration (if interests exists)
solid before hassling with kasumi, cause there is alot of work thats 
needs to be done, not only configurations but also ways of tracking 
single UE and GUI stuff for adding keys for specific UE's...

And currently mine and Rishie time working on the UTRAN dissectors is 
running out so we probably wont be able to contribute as much.


But i do agree that its rather interesting that Mitsubishi doesn't seem 
to specifiy the actual patent in the documents.

Btw. completly unrelated; How does the wireshark wiki work? should we 
update the pages for the protocols that we have changed or how does that 
work?

Have a nice friday!

Regards.
Jacob Nordgren


On 08/10/12 00:31, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:26:04AM +0200, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> > No, as long as it is only included in source form, there should be no problem
> > (at least the Intel lawyers didn't see a problem with putting patentencumbered
> > source code into Mesa) as long as this feature is not compiled in by default
> > but requires a magic configure switch. This puts the burden of verifying the
> > patent compliance on the person that configures Wireshark with that configure
> > switch - which is basically the same act as putting the (missing) kasumi source
> > files into your build tree and changing the #define in kasumi.h
> Attached is the git head version of mesa's docs/patents.txt
>
> Ciao
>        Jörg