[SPAM] Re: [Help-gnutls] TLS and SCTP

[Sebastien Decugis]

Thank you for reply.

I have continued this thread on the gnutls-devel mailing-list.

Sebastien.

> I'm not familiar with SCTP but I'll try to reply.
>
>   
>> I understand how to specify my own transport-layer handlers in GNU TLS
>> with the set_push_function and set_pull_function, but I think it is not
>> sufficient support to handle the TLS over the multiple streams as
>> expected. We can create a wrapper function to send data on a specific
>> stream, but not to receive only from a given stream. The logic must be:
>> we receive a message, we can retrieve its stream number, and then we
>> know the TLS context (session) this message belongs to. I cannot see a
>> way to achieve this with the API of gnutls.
>>     
>
> As far as I understand SCTP is that it is a reliable connection with
> multiple streams. For that I'd treat each stream a separate connection
> and provide different push/pull functions for each stream.
>
> If the number of streams are undefined a thought of mine would be to
> have a multiplexer that will receive messages and tag them appropriately
> so the the proper recv function will receive them. Of course this would
> require to use custom transport ptr and custom recv/send functions.
>
> regards,
> Nikos
>
>   

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Sebastien Decugis
Research fellow
Network Architecture Group
NICT (nict.go.jp)