[ietf-privacy] Checking an old protocol, RTSP

"Christian Huitema" <huitema@huitema.net> Wed, 21 May 2014 06:27 UTC

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Subject: [ietf-privacy] Checking an old protocol, RTSP
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I am currently taking a look at RFC 2326: Real Time Streaming Protocol. The
design of RTSP/1.0 is pretty close to that of HTTP/1.0, with very similar
security and privacy considerations, but RTSP did not evolve as quickly as
HTTP. In particular, I cannot find a profile for running RTSP over SSL or
TLS in the RFC series. Is that defined elsewhere?

 

Also, RTSP was widely used in the 90’s. Is that still the case?

 

-- Christian Huitema