Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] kerberos stuff and nettle question

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From: Andrew Hood <ajhood@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:07:36 +1100
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Ronnie Sahlberg wrote:
| list
|
| beware  i just checked in the completely new rewritten kerberos dissector
| together with asn.1 ber helpers in packet-ber.c
|
| it works well for me an my colleagues that has used the code for the last
| week but there are bound to be bugs left
| to sort out.
|
|
| in the future i envision two developments:
| 1, all other asn.1 pased pdus/protocols will migrate over to use the ber
| helpers in packet-ber.c (and get filterable entries)
| 2, it will be easier to extend kerberos with more intelligence.  I really
| want to be able to open the encrypted data and look at the pac structure
| given
| i can can provide the appropriate keytab file.
|
|
|
| As a means towards that goal (2) I think we need to consider adding
another
| dependency.
| Nettle is a low level crypto library unenburdened by export restrictions
| that implement all crypto types we are likely to need.
| Should we start adding nettle to our list of dependencies?

Is that meant to be mandatory, or an alternative?

- --
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