[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 20, 2003, at 1:17 PM, Emanuele Caratti wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:41:12AM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
>
> > How did you get the key in the first place?  There is currently no
> > mechanism in Ethereal to provide a UI to let you set a property for a
> > conversation.
>
> Via option... like the way I do now... Nothing in the gui.

Then there's no reason to associate the key with a conversation.  The 
reasons to associate it with a conversation are

	1) to allow users to set the key without having to enter the IP 
addresses and port numbers for the conversation;

	2) to avoid storing something per-capture as a property.

That would be useful only with a GUI to let dissectors register 
per-conversation properties (putting UI code in the dissectors 
themselves is not allowed, as they have to work even in Tethereal).