Peter Fuller wrote:
>
> I'm studying wireshark and hope to contribute to the project, but not
> sure where yet. Still learning some
> of the guts.... probably will be for awhile. I was readin the
> roadmap for Beyond 1.0 and saw"
>
> * Add privilege separation for dissection.
>
> What does this mean exactly?
It means splitting libwireshark off into a separate executable and running it as
a non-privileged user, possibly chrooted. More information can be found at
http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/PrivilegeSeparation
