Re: [rtcweb] #3: JSEP-02 Review (from Andy Hutton)

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Sat, 03 November 2012 23:33 UTC

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On Nov 3, 2012 9:54 AM, "Stefan Håkansson LK" <
stefan.lk.hakansson@ericsson.com> wrote:
>
> I have the same understanding. But I have also been told that the DTLS
handshake cannot complete until the answer is provided to the offering side
RTCPeerConnection, so the media could anyway not be decoded before the
answer is available. I might have gotten this wrong though.

That is correct. It is also true that candidate pair nomination cannot
complete until the answer arrives too.  The answer includes the ICE
password. But that is just because ICE is back to front.

Not a problem with security descriptions, though. Not does it require extra
round trips. Pity that is can't do peer authentication.