HELP: Client-Server code for anonymous authentication NOT working

[Mihir Kulkarni]

Hello Patrick,
Thats exactly my case! GnuTLS 2.8.6 on Ubuntu 10.04. Thanks a lot for the
prompt reply. Though I'm not at my machine right now, but I'll surely do
what you've said and let you know if I face any other problems. But yes,
your observations are exactly correct regarding the client and server code
in 2.x and 3.x!
I hadn't expected an early reply on Superbowl Sunday! [?] Anyways, thanks a
lot.

cheers,
Mihir Kulkarni
Graduate Student
University of California, Irvine
http://goo.gl/CvRcG



On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Patrick Pelletier
<code at funwithsoftware.org>wrote:

> This sounds like the same problem I ran into recently.  I saw the exact
> same behavior when I tried compiling the current version of the example
> programs against the GnuTLS libraries that came with my operating system.
>  (GnuTLS 2.8.5 on Ubuntu 10.04.)
>
> I'm assuming my issue (and therefore yours) is that I was running example
> code that was meant for GnuTLS 3.x against an installed library that was
> GnuTLS 2.x.  (And, presumably the change in major version indicates an
> incompatibility, although unfortunately in this case it's a rather subtle
> one.)
>
> When I installed the examples that were meant for the version of GnuTLS I
> was actually using (by installing the "gnutls-doc" package on Ubuntu, which
> put the example source code in /usr/share/doc/gnutls-doc/examples), and
> compiled them, it worked fine.
>
> (Presumably it would also work to build the latest GnuTLS from source, and
> then use the latest example code, but that's not the approach I went with,
> because I wanted to write code that would work with Ubuntu's binary
> packages.)
>
> In particular, the 3.x example code has the while loop you mentioned,
> while the 2.x example code does not have the while loop.
>
> (The example anonymous server is ex-anon-serv.c in both the 2.x and 3.x
> examples, but the anonymous client is called ex-client1.c in 2.x, while
> it's called ex-anon-client.c in 3.x.)
>
> I hope that helps,
>
> --Patrick
>
>
> On Feb 5, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Mihir Kulkarni wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I am part of a team at University of California, Irvine who are trying our
> hand at GNUTLS. We installed the package and all its dependencies. But when
> trying with the example code given in the documentation, it throws up an
> error. The details are:
> I tried running the server and client with anonymous authentication. The
> exact error that it gives is:
>
> *CLIENT:*
> mihir at GNU-Linux:~/GNUTLS/gnutls-2.8.6/client$ ./a.out
> *** Handshake failed
> GNUTLS ERROR: A TLS packet with unexpected length was received.
>
> *SERVER:*
> mihir at GNU-Linux:~/GNUTLS/gnutls-2.8.6/server$ ./a.out
> Server ready. Listening to port '5556'.
>
> - connection from 127.0.0.1, port 48108
> *** Handshake has failed (A TLS packet with unexpected length was
> received.)
>
> What is figured out so far is that the server goes into an infinite loop
> on line 120 for the statements:
>        do
>         {
>            ret = gnutls_handshake (session);
>            printf("Do...\n");
>          }
>        while (gnutls_error_is_fatal (ret) == 0);
>
>
> Can someone please tell me what might be going wrong?
> Thank you for your help.
>
> regards,
> Mihir Kulkarni
> Graduate Student
> University of California, Irvine
> http://goo.gl/CvRcG
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