text: # MIT License
  
  # Copyright (c) 2018 Balazs Bucsay
  
  # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  # of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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  # IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
  # FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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  # SOFTWARE.
  
  import sys
  
  if "Generic_authentication_module.py" in sys.argv[0]:
  	print("[-] Instead of poking around just try: python xfltreat.py --help")
  	sys.exit(-1)
  
  import os
  
  __metaclass__ = type
  class Generic_authentication_module():
  	def __init__(self):
  		self.client_step_count = 0
  		self.server_step_count = 0
  		self.cmh_struct_authentication  = {}
  
  		return
  
  	# return the control message handler structure
  	def get_cmh_struct(self):
  		return self.cmh_struct_authentication
  
  	# return the number of steps
  	def get_step_count(self):
  		return len(self.cmh_struct_authentication)
  
  	def get_client_step_count(self):
  		return self.client_step_count
  
  	def get_server_step_count(self):
  		return self.server_step_count
  
  	# return first message to start the process
  	# client sends to server, server handles based on cmh struct
  	def authentication_init_msg(self):
  		return self.cmh_struct_authentication[0][0]
  
  	# sanity check for the configuration
  	def sanity_check(self, config):
  		return True
  
  	# initialization function - do not mix up with __init__()
  	# this function is called from the xfltreat.py just after the sanity_check()
  	def init(self, config, servermode):
  		return True
  