Sara Golemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> I have no idea how to test the server mode of libssh2 though.  Is that 
>> even supported?  I see there are some RSA signing stuff going on, and 
>> I'd assume that is for the server side, but right now I'm to deep into 
>> details to remember how things worked on a high level.
>> 
> There isn't one.  I'd like to add one at some point, but it involves a 
> lot of work to make a framework which is both capable of managing client 
> requests and non-obtrusive to the calling app.
>
> Also, since most calling apps only need client side support, the 
> server-side stuff should be separable from the main library in order to 
> keep it lean.

Ok, makes sense.

>>> As for PEM reading, I slammed my head through a wall with that subject a
>>> year or so ago and have some decent parsers available.  I'll look at
>>> pushing these some point after the dust settles on your gcrypt work.
>> 
>> Ok.  I might implement something simple as well.  The ASN.1 required to 
>> read RSA/DSA keys is pretty minimal, and it is easy to implement ad-hoc 
>> without any fancy bloated asn.1 library.
>> 
> Nod.  RSA/DSA keys only need support for ASN.1 integers, so parsing 
> those out of DER packets once you've stripped the base64 encoding 
> becomes relatively trivial (I say relatively, because it *IS* a fussy 
> little spec).

Yup, I'll start on it next week.

/Simon

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