[gnutls-help] Many "Hello Request" messages

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos nmav at gnutls.org
Fri Nov 6 11:14:37 CET 2015


On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Rick van Rein <rick at openfortress.nl> wrote:
> And...
> I solved my own problem, sorry.
> It turns out that WireShark isn't as dependable as it normally is; it
> cannot see that the handshake messages are encrypted.  Inspecting things
> at the binary level, this was clearer than the decoded output (...)
> Sorry about this.  I didn't realise the Record level left no markers of
> having applied encryption -- and WireShark's deciphering as Encrypted
> Handshake Message sent me into a wrong line of thought.

That reminded me of:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1105575

I remember I spent quite some time trying to understand what are these
messages. Not sure if it was ever forwarded upstream.

regards,
Nikos



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