RE: Binary packet protocol rethink

[Peter Gutmann <pgut001%cs.auckland.ac.nz@localhost>]

Niels Möller <nisse%lysator.liu.se@localhost> writes:

>One can do all of these with the current ssh wire protocol. It's even
>straight-forward to do. But if we switch to clear text lengths (with no
>other, deeper, changes to the protocol), it gets a lot more difficult.

Why?  The length just tells you how much to decrypt in one block, what you put
inside it is up to you.  At a lower level, the TCP headers already give length
information, and if you can deal with that then you can just as easily deal
with plaintext lengths.

Peter.