Re: Verification of user when running Wireshark

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Oct 18, 2010, at 10:01 PM, Jaap Keuter wrote:

> Guy is right, the GPL voids this approach. Any Wireshark API call from your dissector makes it applicable, and I 
> can't envision a plugin without one. 
>
> You do have proto_mark_private() which limits exposure of your plugin, by blocking Wiki access for your protocol 
> fields.

...not that, if your protocol is private, you should have any documentation of it in the (public!) Wireshark Wiki 
anyway, so that's more of a UI politeness feature than a protection feature (after all, somebody could just build a 
version of Wireshark with proto_mark_private() stubbed out).
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