[Ethereal-dev] Re: Dissection of ISO8583 protocol packets

["ronnie sahlberg" <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 <carsten.ruf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
>
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