Re: [rtcweb] Summary of ICE discussion

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Tue, 04 October 2011 15:31 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 08:33:57 -0700
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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Summary of ICE discussion
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On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Randell Jesup <randell-ietf@jesup.org> wrote
>
> One observation about the security/attack-vector side of this:  Any
> objection that includes "if an attacker is in a MITM position they could
> trick the rtcweb client into sending media" is an invalid objection.  A MITM
> attacker could inject or re-route any amount of traffic they wanted already
> if they're in the media path.


Concur. ICE is primarily about web attackers, not network attackers.

-Ekr