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| author | Martin Kaiser <wireshark@kaiser.cx> | 2013-02-21 22:24:43 +0000 |
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| committer | Martin Kaiser <wireshark@kaiser.cx> | 2013-02-21 22:24:43 +0000 |
| commit | 29de8baed54d33d30732dae602ca1d035942a622 (patch) | |
| tree | 381859af78d2e78eacf2f0c05aded5d11be393f3 /doc/README.developer | |
| parent | 91b9ecd0a09f4c532bf2d457c6f8837fa567e7d3 (diff) | |
mention gcrypt wrapper in README.developer
svn path=/trunk/; revision=47812
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diff --git a/doc/README.developer b/doc/README.developer index 1b8ca452cd..028571b149 100644 --- a/doc/README.developer +++ b/doc/README.developer @@ -438,6 +438,11 @@ platform-dependent implementations and platform-independent APIs, such as the routines in epan/filesystem.c, allowing the code that calls it to be written portably without #ifdefs. +Wireshark uses libgcrypt as general-purpose crypto library. To use it from +your dissector, protect libgcrypt calls with #ifdef HAVE_LIBGCRYPT. Don't +include gcrypt.h directly, include the wrapper file wsutil/wsgcrypt.h +instead. + 1.1.2 String handling Do not use functions such as strcat() or strcpy(). |