[gnutls-dev] Re: Question about DTLS

[Simon Josefsson]

"authesserre samuel" <sauthess at gmail.com> writes:

> hi,
>
> Thanks for your answer.
> I had understood in the post that the work would be important due to
> TCP part that is not separate clearly....
> My free time is the only contribution I can do (but if a company heard
> us ..... ;) )
> I'm sure that I'm not the only person interested by this project (the
> openssl DTLS development is a proof that I say is true)

Yup.

> I will start by looking in gnutls source code to see what is
> reusable directly without any modification (the goal of DTLS is to
> reuse maximum of TLS source code) and if it's possible (if it isn't
> a enormous project and if I have enough time) I will start a gnudtls
> project ;)

Personally, I think integrating it into gnutls would be best.  Code
duplication in two projects, gnutls+gnudtls, would be quite bad and
un-maintainable.  But I haven't looked at DTLS too much, perhaps the
protocols differ too much to fit gnutls' design.

/Simon

> Samuel
>
> On 5/21/06, Simon Josefsson <jas at extundo.com> wrote:
>> "authesserre samuel" <sauthess at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > hi,
>> >
>> > I would like to know if DTLS extension is always in program development.
>> > I read a post dated of the May 7, 2005 which speaks about the
>> > implementation of DTSL but I haven't seen others....
>>
>> Hi.  As far as I'm aware, nobody is actively working on DTLS for
>> GnuTLS.  It is a large project, and may involve changing critical
>> parts of GnuTLS, so it will have to be done on the next experimental
>> branch 1.5, or possibly as a completely separate project external to
>> gnutls (i.e., gnudtls).
>>
>> > If development is in progress I propose my help.
>> >
>> > I work on Ethereal project about SSL/TLS and DTLS so I have realize a
>> > DTLS dissector based on OpenSSL project but It contains errors (I will
>> > correct those which I would find and post in openssl dev mail list
>> > because at this time my dissector contains the same errors to work ;)
>> > ) and I want to be able to test interoperability ....
>> >
>> > It's why I offer my help (the others reasons it's I want to use DTLS
>> > and rfc 4347 has been released ;) )
>>
>> Thank you!  If you want to start working on it, just go ahead.  If you
>> need help doing it, and can sponsor it financially, or know someone
>> who might, I'd be interested in doing the work.
>>
>> /Simon
>>
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