I, unfortunately have a subscription to a cable Internet service in East Delhi which uses a Windoze client to authorise connection to the provider. The client and the usermanagement software at the server end is made by a certain company called Elitecore which is bombay based. Ironically, while the server software is Linux based, the clients are not. This seems to be the only Cable Internet software being used in Indian cities. This forces me to use Internet after booting my home dual-boot to Windoze and using Outlook express as my mail client.
Some one at ILUG-bombay had made a linux client some nonths back along with the help of other local iluggers. However, the protocol for the client(Cyberoam) has changed of late, and they no longer use plain text passwords for authentication. It is crypted now, some very trivial encryption, but something I still have not deciphered. So the earlier client is useless. Using sniffers, I have mapped the complete protocol that the client uses, BUT for the encryption of the password. The protocol is a no-brainer - in-fac some aspects of it is pathetic like ASCII format for storage of packet length indicators. The encryption shoudl be trivial too - there is a 1-to-1 correspondence between the length of your password and the encrypted form. I am still at it, trying to decipher the encryption. But my question is, is my work legal in India? I mean this is fair-use, right? If I finally make the client and distribute it, could I fall into a legal problem? - Sandip ------------------------------ Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sandipb.net ================================================ To subscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subscribe in subject header To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header Archives are available at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org =================================================
