> If I have learned anything from Francois's code is that you > can never be sure if you get a partial or a full packet.
Right ! > The question is if a packet is encrypted (des3) how do you know > you have received the full packet ? The kind of data into the packet doesn't change anything. > Obviously you can not check for a string or a delimiter that > would tell you that the packet is complete. You have to thing about your own protocol (see Angus excellent answer). You have to think into [software] layers. You have the upper layer where the data is as seen by the user, then you have the cryptography layer where you encrypt/decrypt data (using DES in your case), then you have the transport layer where the TCP connection is used. As data traverse layers from top to down, you add any data needed to move it to the next layer without loosing data and data boundaries. When you traverse from down to top (at the other side of the communication), you extract usefull data from the packets and pass it to the next level. -- Contribute to the SSL Effort. Visit http://www.overbyte.be/eng/ssl.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Author of ICS (Internet Component Suite, freeware) Author of MidWare (Multi-tier framework, freeware) http://www.overbyte.be -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
