A packet or streams layer for GENSEC/SASL?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sat Feb 4 09:37:05 GMT 2006


On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 04:00 -0500, Michael B Allen wrote:
> If you want a convenient functions that give you
> a socket API then you can easily build that on top of the read/write
> tokens style stack. Doing the reverse is potentially ugly.

Don't worry.  The GENSEC layer will remain as is, with only an
additional 'max data size'.  But once you consider that you may need to
handle packet fragmentation, it is nice if a layer below the application
logic *optionally* can do it.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
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