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Re: Is the svn:// protocol secure when encrypted via SASL?

From: Keith Palmer Jr. <keith_at_consolibyte.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:31:02 -0500

So there's no one out there that knows whether SASL encrypts the data stream, or just the authentication (or which SASL modules encrypt the data, and which don't)?

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On Feb 16, 2011, at 8:35 AM, Keith Palmer Jr. wrote:
> 
> If there's an easy way to decompress it, I certainly don't know it. Wireshark just gives me a pile of packets- I don't know what algorithm was used to compress the data, or even where the compressed data starts and ends. 
> 
> Is there any documentation anywhere as to which SASL modules encrypt the data, vs. which don't? 
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> On Feb 16, 2011, at 7:58 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> 
>> No, I didn't mean it to sound harsh.  I assumed that, having already
>> captured the data in wireshark, it would be straightforward to get
>> wireshark to decompress it or dump it to a file.
>> 
>> Thanks for jumping in and correcting me.
>> 
>> Daniel
>> 
>> Julian Foad wrote on Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:58:22 +0000:
>>> On Wed, 2011-02-16, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>>>> Keith Palmer Jr. wrote on Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 16:26:19 -0500:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I tried to capture the traffic with Wireshark, but it appears that
>>>>> everything is compressed over the wire anyway... so I can't tell if
>>>>> I'm looking at just compressed data, or compressed+encrypted data. 
>>>> 
>>>> Decompress it then?
>>> 
>>> Daniel, I'm sure you didn't mean that to sound harsh but it does to me!
>>> Decompressing it might be quite difficult to arrange, practically, and
>>> it was quite reasonable for Keith to enquire here before going to that
>>> effort.
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your "depends on the SASL module" answer a few minutes later.
>>> 
>>> - Julian
>>> 
>>> 
> 
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