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)?
--- - Keith Palmer ConsoliBYTE, LLC Ask for a quote! - QuickBooks Integration and Software Development keith_at_ConsoliBYTE.com 1-860-341-1464 http://www.ConsoliBYTE.com/ Follow us on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/consolibyte AIM: consolibyte MSN: support_at_consolibyte.com Yahoo: consolibyte_at_yahoo.com Gtalk: consolibyte Skype: consolibyte 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? > > --- > - Keith Palmer > ConsoliBYTE, LLC > Ask for a quote! - QuickBooks Integration and Software Development > keith_at_ConsoliBYTE.com > 1-860-341-1464 > http://www.ConsoliBYTE.com/ > Follow us on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/consolibyte > AIM: consolibyte > MSN: support_at_consolibyte.com > Yahoo: consolibyte_at_yahoo.com > Gtalk: consolibyte > Skype: consolibyte > > > > > 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 >>> >>> >Received on 2011-02-21 19:31:38 CET |
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