[gnutls-dev] Re: Question about DTLS

[authesserre samuel]

I know DTLS protocol but nothing about gnutls implementation (I
started to read documentation).... I said that without any
reflexion...
DTLS rfc is long of 25 pages because it's a TLS diff and was made in
the idea of TLS code reuse so it's problably the best choice
(integrated in gnutls).

that's why I have said that the first thing I will look it's the TCP
implementation (because I think that's the principal problem
integration)

regards,

Samuel

On 5/21/06, Simon Josefsson <jas at extundo.com> wrote:
> "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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> > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>


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+ Authesserre Samuel            +
+ 12 rue de la défense passive+
+ 14000 CAEN                      +
+ FRANCE                           +
+ 06-27-28-13-32                   +
+ sauthess at gmail.com          +
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