From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:05:55 +0100 From: Alberto =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cort=E9s?= To: Russ Cox Subject: Re: [9fans] snoopy thinks that the cpu command talks 9p Message-ID: <20070116140555.GA12047@it.uc3m.es> References: <20070116115900.GA16784@it.uc3m.es> <20070116130839.GA20455@it.uc3m.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 042bdf5c-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Russ Cox said: > No, it's not. There is a negotiation that happens first, specific to c= pu, > and then there is a generic factotum authentication protocol that happe= ns > afterward (if p9 is what is chosen by the cpu negotiation), > and then the bulk of the connection is in fact encrypted 9P. > Printing the hex is still the best choice: only the first little bit ha= s > text, and even that has some NULs and the like for framing. > The auth protocol has some text strings embedded but it's mostly > binary. >=20 > Russ Thanks you very much for the explanation, some things are much more clear now. Those few runes-as-hex sound reasonable, now that I understand a little bit of the big picture. --=20 Alberto Cort=E9s