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[codec] Padding in draft-ietf-codec-opus-07?

"Christian Hoene" <hoene@uni-tuebingen.de> Mon, 25 July 2011 16:11 UTC

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Subject: [codec] Padding in draft-ietf-codec-opus-07?
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Hello,

I am wondering about a padding feature in draft-ietf-codec-opus-07. It
allows you to extend the frame size by filling it up with zeros.

 I just spoke with the Tim, Jean-Marc and Gregory about this feature. As far
as I understood, this feature is required at transcoding gateways to enforce
a stream of packets having a constant size (while using UDP). Otherwise,
attackers could potentially follow the conversation by observing packet
sizes. 

To my understanding, padding is a feature that can be easily skipped from
the codec specification. It violates the layering principle and is intended
only for a very specific use cases. On the other side, constant sized frames
can be easily supported by keeping the codec parameters fixed.

With best regards,

 Christian Hoene



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