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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] again openssl.

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From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 02:40:00 +0200

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:06:04AM +0300, Peter Volkov wrote:
> Is openssl used anywhere in the code? I've grepped all sources for all
> openssl headers and did not found any
> places where they are included. Last time this question was asked the
> answer was [1] mit-kerberos, but could you point me more where it is
> used?

It is needed when linking against libkrb5.

> And another possibly related question. Do I understand correctly (from
> configure.in) that gnutls is used for SSL decryption while gcrypt is
> used for ipsec and they could be used completely independently?

libgnutls requires gcrypt to be present:
jmayer@egg> libgnutls-config --libs
-L/usr/lib -lgnutls -lgcrypt -lgpg-error

I hope this helps a bit.

 ciao
   Joerg

PS: I've noticed that on opensuse-factory mit kerberos doesn't seem to
    require (or import) openssl.
-- 
Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.

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