On May 5, 2018, at 2:07 AM, Ahmad Fatoum <ah...@a3f.at> wrote: >> On 5May 2018, at 10:47, Guy Harris <g...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: >> >> That doesn't require "some authority that allocates protocol identifiers", >> because it doesn't require protocol identifiers; all that needs to be done >> is to allocate pcapng block types to those protocols that require some >> additional information to decrypt its traffic. > > I like the idea of a "universal" key pcapng block more than requiring each > interested protocol to request its own block.
Each protocol's key format has to be documented, to allow arbitrary programs to use the block, so they'll have to request it *anyway*, supplying the key format as part of the request. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://www.wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe
