Re: Dissection of ISO8583 protocol packets
"ronnie sahlberg" <[email protected]>
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Hi, I am not aware of anyone developing support for this protocol (at least I do not recall anyone on the mailing list saying they were looking at it). Since it is an ISO standard I assume it is based on ASN.1 / [P|B]ER ? If so, it might be semi-easy to add basic support to ethereal for this protocol using the ASN2ETH compiler that is sued for some 30-40 other ASN.1 based protocols in ethereal. A good way to start would be to add a new page to the wiki (wiki.ethereal.com) for this protocol and add some description of the protocol and also add some example captures of this protocol. (I am a SAN/NAS person so I do not have access to very many (==none at all) ISO based implementations/devices/protocols myself) best regards ronnie sahlberg On 5/3/06, Carsten Ruf <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello devs, > > I'd like to know if there are any plans for developing a dissector for > ISO-8583 packets? > We have discussions about implementing such a dissector, but we want to > avoid wasting our time because someone is doing the same thing just in > this moment. > > > About the ISO-8583 : > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > ISO 8583-1:2003 specifies a common interface by which financial > transaction card originated messages may be interchanged between > acquirers and card issuers. > It specifies message structure, format and content, data elements and > values for data elements. > This International Standard uses a concept called bit map, whereby each > data element is assigned a position indicator in a control field, or bit > map. The presence of a data element in a specific message is indicated > by a one in the assigned position; the absence of a data element is > indicated by a zero in the assigned position. This control field is > called the primary bit map. > > So guys, is there anyone out there which is dealing with this topic? > Thanks in advance! > > kind regards > Carsten Ruf > > SYNARGOS GmbH > Communication Solutions > IT Security Services & Cryptographic Infrastructures > Motorstr. 52 > D-70499 Stuttgart > Germany > FON: +49 - (0) 711 / 24 89 88 - 45 > FAX: +49 - (0) 711 / 24 89 88 - 35 > MOBIL: +49 - (0) 174 / 20 48 279 > email: [email protected] > web: http://www.synargos.com > > _______________________________________________ > Ethereal-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.ethereal.com/mailman/listinfo/ethereal-dev >