Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] performing cpu/time intensive computation in a protocol dissector

[Paolo Abeni <paolo.abeni@xxxxxxxx>]

hello,

On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 11:17 +0200, Sake Blok wrote:
> Well, if I have understood your code correctly, 

Just to leave praise (or blame :-), for those who really deserve it,
this is not entirely my code, since others have contributed to the patch
(as bugzilla entry reports): Luciano Bello and Maximiliano Bertacchini.

> 2) Change the code to only identify the weak keys, but not use it
>    to decrypt the SSL traffic (would this also be CPU intensive?)

Yes. It will take near exactly the same amount of time and computation
since, in current code, the larger amount of time is spent looping on
candidate weak keys.

Cheers,

Paolo

 
 
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