Re: [rtcweb] End-to-end encryption vs end-to-end authentication (DTLS-SRTP / SDES-SRTP)

Iñaki Baz Castillo <ibc@aliax.net> Thu, 05 April 2012 18:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] End-to-end encryption vs end-to-end authentication (DTLS-SRTP / SDES-SRTP)
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2012/4/5 Roman Shpount <roman@telurix.com>:
>> The fingerprint is always delivered from the signaling services, so by
>> the HTTPS website providing the JS calling application.
>>
> If fingerprint is exposed to the user and be compared through some
> alternative communications channel, the it can provide an independent
> security validation similar to the one used in ZRTP.

Define such an "alternative communications channel" and explain me how
the signaling server cannot alter that channel.



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Iñaki Baz Castillo
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